The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.2

v1.c18.2

The history of the Ganges-Jumna valley after the defeat and death of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra king Rājyapāla (*c.* 1018 A.D.) is somewhat obscure. After the plunder and evacuation of Kanauj and Bārī, the successors of Rājyapāla appear to have retired towards the eastern portion of their dominions. The Jhusi grant of Trilocanapāla and Kara stone-inscription of Yaśaḥpāla indicate that these princes held a portion of the district of Allahabad during the period *c.* 1027-1037 A.D. The region around Kanauj may have in the meantime passed under the control of the powerful Candella king Vidyādhara (*c.* 1019 A.D.). The death of Vidyādhara seems to have synchronised with the beginning of the most glorious chapter in the history of the Kalacuris of Tripurī. There appears to be sufficient reason to believe that Gāṅgeyadeva Vikramāditya (*c.* 1030-41 A.D.) and his son Lakṣmī-Karṇa (*c.* 1041-70 A.D.) not only held Allahabad and Benares, but also exercised a sort of loose hegemony over the *Doab*. The actual government of Kanauj and its immediate neighbourhood however seems to have passed under the control of other princes.