Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c5.8

c5.8

There were, again, minor families ruling small districts under the Yādavas, for we learn that the temple of Maheśvara at Pātna was completed by a chief, Gōvana, of the Nikumbha family, who was governing in that neighbourhood, in A.D. 1153, and that grants were made to it by his successors Sōidēva and Hēmādideva, who are mentioned in another inscription at the same place. At Añjanerī is an inscription of A.D. 1142 recording the erection of a temple, which mentions a Seunadeva who was, possibly, another small governor under the Yādavas, and related to them.