[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v1.c16.20.4 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.20.4 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.20.4 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c16.20.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.20.4) Though it is not impossible that there may be some grain of historical fact in the stories of the adventures of Jayāpīḍa, all attempts to identify Jayanta must remain problematical.¹ As a result of all these invasions the lower Ganges valley must have been reduced to a chaotic condition. The Lāma Tāranātha, referring to the condition of this region just before the election of Gopāla, the founder of the Pāla dynasty, says: "There was no longer any member of it (the royal family of the Candras) a king; in Oḍiviśa, in Bengal and the other five provinces to the east, each Kṣatriya, Brāhman, and merchant (Vaiśya?) constituted himself king of his surroundings, but there was no king ruling the country."² The anarchic condition is more vividly expressed by the expression \*Mātsyanyāya\* which is applied by the Khalimpur inscription of Dharmapāla to describe the condition of North-eastern India before the election of Gopāla.³ - [Previous: v1.c16.20.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.20.3) - [Next: v1.c16.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.21) - [Up: v1.c16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.20.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c16.20.4) · Pramāṇa