The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s1.11

v2.c30.s1.11

The next prince⁶ mentioned by the Sasbahu inscription is Maṅgalarāja, who is said to have "scattered his enemies as the thousand-rayed (sun) does the darkness. As he for ever paid worship to the lord (*Īśvara*), so he was worshipped by thousands of great lords.’"⁷ Maṅgalarāja is probably to be identified with the prince of that name who is mentioned in an ‘*Ukha-Mandar’ stone-inscription* at Biana, ‘the chief town of the *tahsīl* of the same name in the Bharatpur State in Rajputana.’ This inscription is incised at the foot of a pillar in the ‘Ukha-Mandar,’ an old Hindu temple, now used by the Muslims as a Masjid. Unfortunately, a portion of the stone being permanently built in below the bottom of the pillar, only ‘the first 27 or so letters of each of the 23 lines of which it consists are visible.’ The script of the record is older than the Biana inscription of *Adhirāja* Vijaya dated in (V.) *Saṁvat* 1100 (*c.* A.D. 1043).¹ The inscription is a Vaiṣṇava *prasasti*, and shows that the temple was ‘originally one of the god Viṣṇu.’ In line 12 it mentions Maṅgalarāja, to whose reign it apparently belongs.²