The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.20.3

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It is not improbable that the Vaṅga (Samataṭa) king defeated by Yaśovarman was one of the Khaḍga rulers referred to above. The success of Yaśovarman was however short-lived, and not long after 736 A.D., he fell a victim to the ambition of the Kārkoṭa king Lalitāditya Muktāpīḍa, probably known to the Chinese as *Mu-to-pi*.² We are told by Kalhaṇa that after annexing the dominions of the Kanauj king, Lalitāditya ‘proceeded with ease to the eastern ocean’ and reached the ‘“Gauḍa land.”’³ Another invasion of Bengal-Bihar was probably undertaken by the Kāmarūpa king Śrī-Harṣa (Hariṣa?), who is referred to in the Paśupati inscription of his son-in-law Jayadeva of Nepal (153 = 153 + 595 = 748 A.D?) as the ruler of *Gauḍa, Oḍra, Kaliṅga, Kosala and other lands*.⁴ This appears to have been followed by the invasion of the Kashmirian king Jayāpīḍa, who is reported by Kalhaṇa to have visited the lands east of Prayāga in the course of his adventures in the early part of his reign (c. 762-63 A.D.). We are told that Jayāpīḍa reached 'the city of Pauṇḍravardhana, subject to the king of Gauḍa and at that time protected by a prince called Jayanta.' The Kashmīrian monarch married Kalyāṇadevī, the daughter of Jayanta, and after conquering 'the chiefs of the five Gauḍas' (*Pañca-Gauḍ-ādhipān*), made his father-in-law their sovereign.