The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.127

v1.c20.127

The statement quoted above solves some of the problems which so long confronted the historians of India. Ibn ul-Athīr clearly says that the person who killed Rājyapāla was Bīdā of Khajuraho. As Ibn ul-Athīr lived within a century of the death of Maḥmūd, his statement must be accepted as more reliable than the later account of Niẓām ud-Dīn. Thus it is apparent that the Nandā (ندا) of the latter writer was a mistake not for Gaṇḍa, as Cunningham supposed, but for Bīdā (بیدا).¹ Apart from other considerations the following comparison of the letters will show that Bīdā can be corrupted into *Nandā* much more easily than *Gaṇḍa* :