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Chart XLVIIIa<br />
Conjiverum, South India (Birth <strong>of</strong> Mizar) A.D.1070<br />
1 st 2 nd 3 rd 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th<br />
Time does not permit us to do more than glance at the last life <strong>of</strong> Mizar, though there is much connected with it that would repay more detailed<br />
investigation. He was born at a city called Kanchi (now Conjiveram) in the south <strong>of</strong> India, in the year A.D.1070 just after King Kulottanga<br />
came to the throne. His father was Telema, a statesman high in favour <strong>of</strong> the monarch, and his mother was Soma. His childhood seems to<br />
have been a happy one, as his parents were more sensible than most, and xonsulted his comfort rather than their own prejudices.<br />
He grew up into the atmosphere <strong>of</strong> an Indian court nott the best school, perhaps, for so receptive a mind. But the father and mother were people<br />
<strong>of</strong> remarkable probity, honest among a host <strong>of</strong> intriguers, so that the home influence, at any rate, was always good and pure. His great<br />
friend during school and student days was Gluck, the son <strong>of</strong> Ivy, a neighbouring chieftain, almost independent, although nominally owing allegiance<br />
to the same King. The two friends were inseparable until a matter <strong>of</strong> religion divided them --not that they ever quarrelled on religious<br />
subjects, but that Gluck was absorbed into the circle which gathered round the great new preacher Ramanujacharya, while Mizar, though admiring<br />
him immensely and feeling nothing but the deepest friendliness and reverence for him, yet would not leave the Shavite form <strong>of</strong> worship<br />
in which he had been brought up.<br />
For a long time this made no difference to the two friends, but presently King Kulottunga, stirred up by his family priests, became violently<br />
hostile to Ramanujacharya, and the latter found it politic to retire to Srirangam, whither his devoted disciple followed him, and thus for the<br />
first time the friends were separated. Mizar inherited his father's political genius, and held important positions both under King Kulottunga and<br />
under his son Vikram Chola who succeded him after his death in the year 1118. He had to conduct some delicate negotiations with ceylon,<br />
whose King at that time was one Wijayobahu, who had undertaken a great war against the Tamil invaders <strong>of</strong> his country, and had finally driven<br />
them back to the mainland.<br />
Mizar was entirely successful in the mission which he undertook, and gained great reputation and substantial reward as the result <strong>of</strong> his skill.<br />
He married, though not early in life, and his wife was gentle and unobjectionable--a careful helpmate and a good mother to the six children<br />
whom she bore him.<br />
Mizar died in the year 1148 at an advanced age. Having spent the last few years <strong>of</strong> his life in retirement from active service, though occasion<br />
ally advising his successor when special difficulties arose. These two administrative lives may be regarded as probably intended to serve as a<br />
preparation for the far more important executive work which seems likely to fall to his share in this present life.<br />
1 st 2 nd 3 rd<br />
Brihat<br />
Lotus -Vizier<br />
Kratos -Aquila Madhu -Karu<br />
Uchcha -Phra<br />
Kamu -Gluck<br />
Oak -Gimel<br />
Telema -Soma Philae -Jason<br />
Dido -Hebe<br />
Echo -Amal<br />
Rex -Zama<br />
Mizar -Boreas Phra -Uchcha<br />
Trefoil -Auriga<br />
Dome -Beatus<br />
Judex -Xulon<br />
Gimel -Oak<br />
Yati -Nanda<br />
Hebe -Dido<br />
Gluck -Kamu Yodha -Noel<br />
Eudox -Rao<br />
Chanda -Tulsi<br />
Beatus -Dome<br />
Vizier -Lotus<br />
Amal -Echo<br />
Ivy -Rector Rama -Flos Nanda -Yati<br />
Cento -Sylla<br />
Nole -Yodha<br />
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