The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.315

v1.c18.315

It is generally assumed by historians that the battle of Chandwar 'put an end to the independent kingdom of Kanauj.'³ The publication of the *Machhlishahr grant*⁴ of Hariścandra has however shown that the Gāhaḍavālas, though robbed of most of their dominions, were not completely destroyed in 1193 A.D. This record was found ''in village Kotwa, parganah Ghiswā, tahsil Macchlishahr,'' during the course of excavation works in the Jaunpur district of U.P. It contains 34 lines, incised on a single plate. The circular seal bears the legend *Śrīmata-Hariścandra-devasya* and the usual figures and emblems. The inscription traces the genealogy of the donor from Yaśovigraha; then records that *Pb.-M.-P.-Parama-māheśvara-Aśvapati-Gajapati-Narapati-Rāja-trayādhipati- Vividha-vidyā-vicāra-vācaspati-*Hariścandra,⁵ while residing at Dhanaṁvakra (?) (line 24), after bathing in the Ganges at the Cyavaneśvara-*ghaṭṭa*, on Sunday, the 15th *tithi* of the bright half of Pauṣa in (V) *Saṁvat* 1253 (Sunday, the 6th January, A.D. 1197), granted the village of Pamahai¹ with its *pāṭakas*² to one Rāhīhīyaka (or Hīhīyaka?), son of the *Ṭhakkura* Madanū of the Kāśyapa *gotra*. It was written by the *Mahākṣapaṭalika* *Ṭhakkura* Bhogāditya.³