[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.c28.205 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.205 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.205 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c28.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.205) Sallakṣaṇavarman was succeeded by his son Jayavarman. Though some of the inscriptions omit him and his father from the dynastic lists,³ his existence is established by epigraphic and numismatic evidence. Thus the Ajaigarh inscription of the time of Vīravarman distinctly tells us that ‘after him (Sallakṣaṇa), the valiant Jayavarmadeva ruled the kingdom.’⁴ The close proximity of the succession of these two princes is also proved by the Mau stone-inscription of the time of Madanavarman, which informs us that when Ananta, who had served under the successive reigns of Kīrtivarman and Sallakṣaṇa, ‘abandoned his body in the waters of (the river of) the gods and the daughter of the Sun’ (\*i. e.\*, at the confluences of the \*Gaṅgā\* and the \*Yamunā\*), his son Gadādhara ‘was eagerly appointed by king Jayavarman, near his own person, in the office of \*Pratīhāra\*.’⁵ The only epigraphic record of this king so far known is the \*Khajraho stone-inscription\* dated in (V.)S. 1173 (c. A.D. 1117), which contains a renewed document of king Dhaṅga. It is curious that this inscription does not contain any names of the princes who ruled between Dhaṅga and Jayavarman. In the two concluding verses (Vs. 63-64) we are simply told that the above record was “caused to be (re-)written in clear letters by Jayavarmadeva- \*nṛpati\*.” It was re-written by the learned \*Gauḍa\* Jayapāla, the \*Kāyastha\* of the above prince.⁶ Nothing is known about the political incidents of this king's reign. His copper \*drammas\* (grains 60) are close imitations of those of his father.¹ Cunningham noticed a solitary silver coin in the collection of the British Museum; but it cannot be traced now.² - [Previous: v2.c28.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.204) - [Next: v2.c28.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.206) - [Up: v2.c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.205) · Pramāṇa