The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.79.3

v1.c20.79.3

For in that year the Paramāra *Mahārājādhirāja* Vākpatirāja issued his Dharmapurī grant from Ujjayinī.⁵ It should be noted in this connection that this city and Mandu were in the possession of the Gurjara-Pratīhāras at least up to V.S. 1003, the date of the Partabgarh inscription of Mahendrapāla II. In the East and South-east the Kalacuris had already established themselves as independent powers in the U.P. and the Central Provinces. There is some reason to believe that the Kalacuris, like the Candellas, were also at first feudatories of the Gurjara-Pratīhāras.⁶ In the Kalha plates of Soḍhahdeva Guṇāmbodhi is said to have obtained some land from Bhoja I, while in the Bilhari plate of Yuvarājadeva II and Benares grant of Karṇa Kokalla I is said to have supported Bhoja I in the north. In V. 8 of the Goharwa plates of Karṇa one of his predecessors, Lakṣmaṇarāja, is said to have defeated the Gurjara king along with other princes of Northern and Southern India.¹ As Lakṣmaṇarāja is four generations earlier than Gāṅgeya, who died about 1041 A.D., he can be safely placed in the neighbourhood of the middle of the 10th century A.D. In the west the Cāhamānas had already become an independentp ower before V.S. 1013 (A.D. 957), the date of the Harṣa stone-inscription of Vigraharāja,² while in the south-west the Guhilots appear to have become also independent soon after V.S. 1003.