[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.c29.s2.14.1 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.14.1 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.14.1 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.s2.14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.14.1) The first historical name in the genealogy of the Kalacuris of Ḍāhala¹ is that of Kokkalla.² No record of his reign has so far been discovered; but the documents of his successors refer to a number of political incidents of his time. Thus the Bilhari stone-inscription of the time of Yuvarāja informs us that Kokkalladeva, ‘having conquered the whole earth, set up two unprecedented columns of his fame,—in the quarter of the pitcher-born (Agastya, \*i.e.\* the south) that well-known Kṛṣṇarāja, and in the quarter of Kuvera (\*i.e.\* in the north) Bhojadeva, a store of fortune.’³ The Benares grant of Karṇa informs us that the hand of Kokkalla ‘granted freedom from fear to Bhoja, Vallabharāja, the \*Citrakūṭabhūpāla\* Harṣa, and \*rājā\* Śaṅkaragaṇa.’⁴ The same inscription further tells us that Kokkalla married a lady named Naṭṭā or Naṭṭādevī (\*Naṭṭākhyadevī\*), who was born in the Candella family.⁵ Kielhorn rightly identified Kṛṣṇarāja and Vallabharāja of these two records with the Rāṣṭrakūṭa Kṛṣṇa-Vallabha of Malkheḍ (\*c.\* 878-912 A.D.), and Harṣa with the Candella Harṣa of Khajraho (\*c.\* 900 A.D.).⁶ Kṛṣṇa II married a daughter of Kokkalla,⁷ who is described in the Karda plates as the younger sister of Śaṅkuka.⁸ This Haihaya princess, we are told, ‘attained the rank of chief queen’ (\*mahādevī\*) and became the mother of Jagattuṅga, the father of the famous Indra III (\*c.\* 15-17 A.D.), who raided Ujjayinī and Kanauj in the reign of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra Mahīpāla I (\*c.\* 914-43 A.D.). - [Previous: v2.c29.s2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.13) - [Next: v2.c29.s2.14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.14.2) - [Up: v2.c29.s2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.14.1) · Pramāṇa