The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s3.55

v2.c29.s3.55

The only record of the incidents of this king's reign is contained in the Rajim inscription of his officer Jagapāla. Lines 15-16 of this inscription seem to indicate that 'this chief and his two brothers Gājala and Jayatasiṁha together with the prime-minister Devarāja, subdued the earth.' In lines 10-11 we are told that Jagapāla 'not only took the forts of Saraharāgaḍh and Mavakāsiha(vā), and conquered the Bhramaravadra country, but also took Kāntāra, Kusumabhoga, Kandāse(hva)ra and the district of Kākayara.'² Most of these places have not yet been properly identified. But Kielhorn accepted Cunningham's identification of Kākayara-*deśa* with modern state of Kanker in the C.P. The same scholar was also disposed to regard Kāndāse(hva)ra 'with Sehāwā or Sihoa situated to the east of Kanker, Brahmaravadra with Bamra and Saraharāgaḍh with Sarangarh to the east of Raipur.³ The identification of Kākayara with Kanker makes it possible that the Somavaṁśī princes of Kanker, for whom we have inscriptions dated from 1191 to 1320 A.D., may have been originally feudatories, of the Kalacuris of Tumṁāṇa. Rai Bahadur Hiralal has approximately fixed 'the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th' as the date of Siṁharāja the founder of the Somavaṁśīs of Kanker.⁴