[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.c28.330 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.330 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.330 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c28.330](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.330) These inscriptions show that ‘the history of the Candel dynasty as one of the powers of Northern India’ did not end with the death of Paramardi.² The Garra grants show that his son Trailokyavarman was in possession of villages and townships which were scattered all over the region now occupied by the States of Chhatarpur, Bijawar, and Panna in C. I., and the Lalitpur sub-division of Jhansi district, U.P. It is not unlikely that in the battle with the Turuṣkas at Kakaḍādaha, in which the father of the donee of the Garra grants lost his life, Trailokyavarman proved victorious and recovered his ‘ancestral stronghold of Kālañjara.’ That his assumption of the title of \*Kālañjarādhipati\* was not an idle boast like that of the Kalacuris of Kalyani,³ is perhaps indicated by the \*Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī\*. We are told by this authority that Malik Nuṣrat ud-Dīn Tāī-shī was entrusted with the charge of ‘Bhīānah and Sulṭān-Koṭ…together with the superintendency (شحنكي) of Gwāliyūr’ by ‘Sulṭān I-yal-timish.’ ‘In the year 631 H. (A.D. 1233) he accordingly led an army from Gwāliyūr towards the Kālinjar country, and the Rāe of Kālinjar fled discomfited before him. He plundered the townships of that territory, and in a very short period, obtained vast booty in such wise that in the space of fifty days, the Sultan’s fifth share was set down at twenty-five \*lakhs\*.’¹ There is possibly some exaggeration in this account of Tāī-shī’s success against the ‘Rāe of Kālinjar,’ but the fact remains that that fort and the surrounding country had again passed under the control of the Hindu chiefs. As the dates on the inscriptions of Trailokyavarman range from 1205 to 1241 A.D., it is almost certain that the ‘Rāe of Kālinjar’ defeated by Tāī-shī was this Candella prince. At present there is no means of knowing the exact date when the fort was lost by the Sultans of Delhi. It must have passed into Hindu possession some time between 1203 and 1233. It is possible that Trailokyavarman may have recovered Kālañjara soon after the battle of Kakaḍādaha, which was fought some time before 1205 A. D. - [Previous: v2.c28.329](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.329) - [Next: v2.c28.331](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.331) - [Up: v2.c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28) ## Cites (1) - [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) — Minhāj al-Dīn Jūzjānī --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.330](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.330) · Pramāṇa