The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.315.3

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Sāstrī. Nothing is known about its chief Rudraśikhara.³ The next principality Ucchāla, has been identified with pargana Ujhiyal in Birbhum. But it has been rightly pointed out that if this identification is to depend only on a mere similarity of sound, there are other places in Bengal bearing like names.⁴ Its ruler, Mayagalasimha, is not known from any other source. The next principality, Dhekkarīya, has been identified by Paṇḍit H. P. Sāstrī with modern "Dhekura on the other side of the river Ajaya, near Katwa" in Burdwan district.⁵ The reasons for this equation excepting the similarity of names, are unknown to me. Its *rājā* Pratāpasiṁha is not known from any other source. Of the remaining princes and principalities we can only make some suggestions about Vijayarāja and Kauśāmbī. The latter place is evidently not to be identified with the city of the same name near Allahabad. A place nearer home bearing the same name is mentioned in the Belava grant of Bhojavarman. This is the Kauśāmbī-*aṣṭagacha-khaṇḍala* situated in *Puṇḍra-Bhukti*. Very probably the Kauśāmbī of the *Rāma-carita* commentary is to be identified with the region round about this *Khaṇḍala* in North Bengal. The evidence which led Mr. R. D. Banerji to identify this Kauśāmbī with Kuśumbā in Rajshahi district is not known to me.¹ Vijayarāja has been identified by Dr. H. C.