The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.246.5

v2.c30.s4.246.5

An Abu inscription tells us that the Paramāra Yaśodhavala of Candrāvatī ‘quickly killed Ballāla, the lord of Mālava, when he had learned that he had become hostile to the Caulukya king Kumārapāla.’⁵ The evident identity of this ‘lord of Mālava’ whose head, we are informed by the Vadnagar *praśasti* (V. S. 1208),¹ Kumārapāla suspended at his gate, with Ballāla shows that the latter must have lost his life between *c.* 1144 and 1151 A.D. The Udayapur inscriptions of Kumārapāla,² dated in V.S. 1220 and 1222, proves that sometime before *c.* 1163-66 A.D., Kumārapāla, like his predecessor, had re-established his grip on Malwa up to the banks of the Betwa in the west. There is no reason to suspect that this grip was relaxed before the end of his reign (*c.* 1173 A.D.)