The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.139

v1.c20.139

The find-spot of this inscription may warrant the supposition that after the plunder and evacuation of Kanauj and Bārī, the successors of Rājyapāla retired towards the eastern portion of their fast dwindling kingdom. Nothing definite is known about the successors of Trilocanapāla. The *Kara stone-inscription* however reveals the existence of a prince named Yaśaḥpāla, who ruled near Allahabad in (V) S. 1093 (A.D. 1037). The inscription which was obtained from the gateway of the fort of Kurrah (mod. Kara) in the Allahabad district (U. P.), consists of 17 lines of writing, and opens with the date (V) *Saṁvat* 1093. The epigraph records that on this date *Mahārājādhirāja* Yas(ś)apāla (while encamping) here at the illustrious Kaṭa, granted '*Kaus(s)āmba-Maṇḍale Payalāsa-grāma*' to Māthura Vikṭa (Vikaṭa?) of Pabhosa. Of the places mentioned in this inscription Kauśāmbī has been rightly identified with Kosam, near Allahabad. The village of Payalāsa has also been identified with modern Paras or Pras, some 30 miles N.N.W. from Kosam.¹