The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.291

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¹ Two MSS. dated in the 19th and 39th year of one Harivarmadeva have been discovered in Nepal. N. N. Vasu gave a reading of a grant of the same king, *Vanger Jātīya Itihās*, Vol. II, pp. 215-17; but it has never been edited. See *Bāṅgālār Itihās*, 2nd Ed., Vol. I, pp. 302-04. In this grant *Parama-Vaiṣṇava-P.-Pb. M.*-Harivarman is said to be the son of *M.*-Jyōtivarman; it is dated in his 42nd year. See *IA*, 1922, p. 153, fn. 18; *IB*, p. 168. For Bhavadeva see also *JASB*, 1912, pp. 333-48. In the Bhuvanesvar epigraph Bhaṭṭa Bhavadeva is called *Bāla-Valabhī-bhujaṅga*. Kielhorn could not explain the word. The commentary of the *Rāma-carita* II, 5, mentions a *Sāmanta* of Rāmapāla, Vikramarāja, the ruler of Bāla-Valabhī. There is no doubt therefore that Bāla-Valabhī was the name of a place. In the *Rāma-carita* it is placed near Devagrāma which has however not been identified. It was probably a place in West Bengal. See *infra*, p. 342, fn. 2.