The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.162.1

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Vijayapāla was succeeded sometime before V. S. 1107 by Devavarman his son by his queen Bhuvanadevī. The existence of this prince is known from his grant, which was discovered at the village of Nanyaura, in the Panwari Jaitpur Tahsīl of the Hamirpur District of U. P. along with a grant of Dhaṅgadeva.⁴ The plate which is written on one side only, contains 19 lines of writing. The inscription opens with *Oṁ svasti*, and then traces the genealogy of the donor as follows: *Pb.-M.-P.* Vidyādharadeva-*pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.P.*-Vijaya-pāla-deva-*pādānu-dhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.-Paramamāheśvara-Kālaṁjarādhipati* Devavarma-deva. This prince in (V.)S. 1107 (A.D. 1051), from his residence at Suhavāsa, on the occasion of the anniversary (*Sāṁvat-sarike*) of his mother the *rājñī* Bhuvanadevī, granted the village of Kaṭhahau (?) situated in Raṇamaua in the Rājapura-avasthā, to the Brāhman Abhimanyu, an emigrant from the *Bhaṭṭa-grāma* named Ḍhakārī. The grant ends with the name of the donor ‘*Śrīmad*-Devavarma-devah.’¹ The Candella records refer to no political incidents of his reign. In some of these he is altogether omitted. The Mau stone inscription of Madanavarman, for instance, mentions Kīrtivarman after Vijayapāla.² The same thing is done in the Deogarh rock-inscription of Kīrtivarman and a fragmentary Candella stone inscription from Mahoba.³ All these inscriptions however describe Kīrtivarman as son of Vijayapāla.