The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.342

v2.c28.342

The Ajaigarh rock-inscription of the time of Bhojavarman mention the names of some of the officers of Trailokyavarman.¹ One of these was Vāśe or Vāśeka, of the *Vāstavya* Kāyastha family, who was appointed *Viśiṣa*² of Jayadurga, and endowed with the village of Varbhari by Trailokyavarman. In V. 19 of this record we are told that ‘the wise Vāśeka, being to the armies of the opposing chiefs what a forest-fire is to the brushwood, sent the irresistible Bhojuka, who, seized with frenzy of war, was rending the kingdom in two, in battle to the abcde of death, and thus made Trailokyavarman again the ornament of princely families.’ V. 22 of the same record tells us that Ānanda, Vāśeka’s younger brother, was appointed governor of the fort (of Jayadurga) and ‘reduced to submission the wild tribes of the Bhillas, Śabaras and Pulindas.’ Probably Trailokyavarman owed to these two officers much of his success against internal and external foes.