[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c28.162.2 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.162.2 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.162.2 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c28.162.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162.2) It is therefore likely that Devavarman was succeeded by his younger brother Kīrtivarman. Though it is not unusual for the compilers of royal genealogies to omit a brother from the family tree, there are reasons to suspect that this omission may have been more than casual. The \*Prabodha-candrodaya\* of Kṛṣṇa Miśra, which allegorically represents in the form of a drama the eternal struggle between \*Viveka\* and \*Mahā-mōha\*, supplies the following interesting information on the point.⁴ We are told in the introductory portion of the play that the ‘glorious Gopāla has ordered it to be produced before king Kīrtivarman.’ This Gopāla is called \*Sakala sāmanta-cakra-cūḍāmaṇi\*, who like Paraśurāma extirpated the race of tyrannical kings: “His merciless battle axe spared neither women, child, nor old age; it cleft the broad shoulders of the enemy, and its stroke was followed by a dreadful sound.’¹ In other passages Gopāla is compared with the Man-lion incarnation (\*Nṛsiṁha-rūpa\*) and with the primeval boar (\*Mahā-varāha\*) who ‘raised up the earth when it had sunk in the waters of destruction, poured down upon its sovereigns.’ These passages indicate that Gopāla acted as the saviour in a time of great crisis. Several passages tell us that his services were undertaken in the interest of Kīrtivarman. - [Previous: v2.c28.162.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162.1) - [Next: v2.c28.162.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162.3) - [Up: v2.c28.162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.162.2) · Pramāṇa