The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c15.103

v1.c15.103

For the period that follows, the records of Kāmarūpa supply us with no connected account. But the possibility that a line of kings still ruled in the Valley is revealed by the *Kamauli grant* of Vaidyadeva.² This inscription, written on three copper-plates, is supposed to have been dug out in the course of cultivation, in the village of Kamauli, near the confluence of the Barna and the Ganges at Benares. The seal contains the figure of Gaṇeśa, and is formed like a spoon. The characters resemble those of the Deopara inscription of Vijayasena (*c.* 1097-1159 A.D.).³ It was issued by *Paramamāheśvaraḥ-Paramavaiṣṇavo Mahārājādhirājaḥ Parameśvaraḥ Paramabhaṭṭāraka-Śrīmān* Vaidyadeva in year 4 (of his reign) from the *Haṁsākoñcī-Samavāsita-Śrīmaja-jaya-Skandhāvāra*. It records the grant of two villages named Sāntipāṭaka and Mandarā with a revenue of 400 (*catuḥśatikam*) and situated in the *Viṣaya* of Bāḍā, in the *Maṇḍala* of Kāmarūpa and the *Bhukti* of *Prāgjyotiṣa*. The donee is the Brahman Śrīdhara, son of Yudhiṣṭhira and Pālī his wife, and grandson of Bharata; he was born in the *gotra* of Viśvāmitra, in the village of Bhāva in Varendrī. Incidentally the inscription refers to the ancestors of the donor, who served as ministers of the Pāla kings of Bengal. He himself was the favourite minister of king Kumārapāla. The following chart illustrates the relationship¹:—