The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.130

v1.c20.130

It is also important to remember that the name Gaṇḍa ends in a short *a* and therefore should properly be written as گند or گنده and not with an at the end.² That reduces further the resemblance of Gaṇḍa and Nandā. It can therefore be accepted that the person meant was Vidyādhara the son and successor of Gaṇḍa. Bīdā is a mistake for بدیا, the phonetic equivalent in Arabic of Vidyā, the first portion of the name of the Candella prince. As this statement of Ibn ul-Athīr agrees with epigraphic evidence, there remains absolutely no doubt that about 409-10 A.H. Gaṇḍa was already dead.