The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.315.1

v1.c16.315.1

The identification of all these princes and their principalities is not easy. Bhīmayaśas appears to have been a successor of Chikkora Devarakṣita, the son-in-law of Mathana. It is uncertain who was the Kanauj ruler who was defeated by him. But he was possibly the Gāhaḍavāla Candradeva, who appears to have conquered Kanauj some time during the period 1073-1090 A. D. Koṭāṭavī (the forest principality of Koṭ ?) whose ruler Vīraguṇa has been described as a southern ruler, has been identified with the Koṭ-des in Sarkār Katak (in Orissa) of the *A'īn-i-Akbarī*.¹ But this seems to be improbable, for it involves the assumption that the dominions of Rāmapāla extended so far south as to include portions of Orissa. The principality mentioned next is Daṇḍa-Bhukti. This place is spoken of in the Tirumalai inscription of Rajendra Cola as between Kośala-nāḍu and Takkaṇa-lāḍam. Its king Jayasiṁha was a neighbour of the Orissa king Karṇakeśarī. Hence it must be located somewhere near the borders of Orissa, Western Bengal, and the western portion of the Central Provinces. It is therefore not unlikely that it was "the march-land between Orissa and Bengal corresponding to the modern British districts of Midnapore and Balasore."¹ But its prince Jayasiṁha is not known from any other source. Nor can we explain his relationship with Dharmapāla, who ruled the same principality in the time of Mahīpāla I.