The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.288.2

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10 of the Belava inscription, is the same as the Paramāra ruler Udayāditya (*c.* 1060-87 A D.) who defeated the Tripurī Kalacuri Lakṣmī-Karṇa.² The same scholar also takes the word Jagad-vijaya-malla in V. 11, not as an adjective of *manobhū*, but as a proper name, and identifies him with Jagaddeva or Jagadeo, the youngest son of the Paramāra Udayāditya, who served under Jayasiṁha-Siddharāja, the Caulukya ruler of Anahilapāṭaka (*c.* 1094-1144 A.D.).³ Though some of these identifications have been accepted by other scholars, yet on the whole I think them rather improbable, if not impossible. The reason that led H. P. Śāstrī to place all these rulers in Malwa is perhaps the occurrence of the word Mālavya (Mālava?)-devī in V. 11, as the name of the queen of Sāmalavarman.⁴ Whatever may be the value of these identifications, it is certain that these Varmans held Eastern Bengal, and portions of North and West Bengal during the latter half of the 11th century. The Belava inscription shows that they had their camp at Vikramapura, and they granted land in Puṇḍra-Bhukti (= Puṇḍravardhana-*Bhukti*) to inhabitants of villages in Rāḍhā. At least one of them, Jātavarman, was so powerful as to gain supremacy over Aṅga (Bhagalpur region, Bihar), which was certainly under the Pālas during this period. Thus the Pāla power under Vigrahapāla III must have been restricted to portions of Bihar, North Bengal, and probably the upper part of the Presidency division of Bengal.