The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.288.1

v1.c16.288.1

The Kāmarūpa prince is probably to be identified with one of the predecessors of Vallabhadeva, whose Assam plates are dated in *Śaka* 1107.³ The identification of Govardhana, whose dignity was crippled by Jātavarman, is not certain. Mr. Basak has asked: May he be the father of Bhaṭṭa Bhavadeva of a Bhuvanesvar inscription,⁴ the Brahman Govardhana "distinguished as a warrior and a scholar," whose father was the *Mahāmantrī* and *Sandhivigrahin* of a king of Vaṅga? The probability of this identification is increased by the fact that the village of Siddhala where lay the residence of the donee of the Belava grant is also mentioned in this Bhuvanesvar epigraph as the residence of this ministerial family. The context of both the inscriptions shows that this village was situated in Rāḍhā. It is not unlikely that the *Vaṅgarāja* referred to above is to be identified with one of the Candra kings after whose downfall the family in the time of Bhaṭṭa Bhavadeva, the son of Govardhana, transferred its allegiance to the Varmans. If this guess is correct, king Harivarmadeva, who together with his son was aided by the counsel of Bhavadeva, must be supposed to be a later member of the line of Bhojavarman of the Belava grant.¹ Another identification proposed by Paṇḍit H. P. Śāstrī is that the great warrior Udayin, the contemporary of Sāmalavarman, who is mentioned in V.