The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c15.122

v1.c15.122

The last prince in the *Saka* year 1107 (1184 or 1185 A.D. as the year is taken as current or expired), at the command of his father and for the spiritual welfare of his mother, founded an almshouse (*bhaktaśālā*, *anna-sattra*) near a temple of the god Mahādeva to the east of Kīrtipur in the Hāpyachā-*Maṇḍala*, and endowed it with the revenues of certain villages and hamlets. The localities mentioned have not yet been identified. The lack of any imperial titles suggests that these princes were not very important. But the close similarity of the script of this inscription and that of the Deopara inscription, as also its date points to the contemporaneity of Vijayasena and these rulers; and it is therefore not impossible that either Udayakarṇa or his father Rāyārideva may have been ‘the prince of Kāmarūpa’ who according to Umāpatidhara was defeated by his patron. It was again probably one of these princes, possibly Vallabhadeva, who was defeated by Vijayasena's grandson Lakṣmaṇasena.¹ A remark has recently been made, that, though discovered at Tezpur, ‘this grant and the donor seem to have belonged to Eastern Bengal very close to Kāmarūpa.’² But this assertion is, to my knowledge, not yet supported by any proof, and so the exact area over which this line ruled must remain for the present uncertain.