[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.c28.29.2 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.29.2 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.29.2 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c28.29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29.2) But as the date of Jayaśakti cannot be earlier than about the beginning of the 9th century, and as there is nothing to discredit the epigraphic evidence that he gave his name to the \*Bhukti\*, we must give up this identification.² Watters may be right when he suggests that the \*Chih-chi-t'o\* of Yuan Chwang represents modern Chitor and not Jajhoti.³ From the fact that his dominion is called only a \*Bhukti\* we may infer that Jayaśakti was at best a mere feudatory perhaps of the great Gurjara emperor Bhoja (\*c.\* 836-88 A.D.). In the inscriptions he is generally praised vaguely for victories over his enemies. Thus in a Khajraho inscription of Dhaṅga we are told that “by the unmeasured prowess” of him and his younger brother “adversaries were destroyed, as woods are burnt by a blazing fire.”⁴ But in another Khajraho inscription of the same king, the younger brother Vijaya is said to have, ‘like Rāma, on his warlike expeditions reached even the southernmost point of India.’⁵ It is not impossible that there may be some historical truth hidden in this reference. But if he really invaded peninsular India he must have done so as the feudatory of some more powerful sovereign. - [Previous: v2.c28.29.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29.1) - [Next: v2.c28.29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29.3) - [Up: v2.c28.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.29.2) · Pramāṇa