The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.102

v1.c18.102

(10) *Set Mahet stone-inscription.*—Discovered at the village of Mahet in Gonda district, U. P., under the ruins of a Buddhist building. It contains 18 lines, recording that a certain Vidyādhara, son of Janaka and grandson of Bilvaśiva of the Vāstavya family, established a convent for Buddhist ascetics at the town of Jāvṛśa (or Ajāvṛṣa), where the inscription was set up: Janaka, we are told, was the *Saciva* of Gopāla, the lord of Gādhipura. Gopāla's son was king Madana, the contemporary and master of Vidyādhara. The date of the inscription is (V.S.) 1176 (*rasādhikaṁ abhivyāpi girīśa-caraṇāśritam*).² King Madana was probably a feudatory of Govindacandra.³