The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.279

v2.c30.s4.279

A comparison of the above lists will show that the genealogy as far as Yaśovarman is the same in all the grants, but that the two groups entirely differ after him. According to Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Yaśovarman was succeeded by Ajayavarman. Since a lineal descendant of Ajayavarman retained the title *Mahārāja* which had been borne by Yaśovarman, Kielhorn concluded that the princes *e* to *h* of this list represented or pretended to represent the main line of the Paramāra family. According to No. 4 Yaśovarman was succeeded by *Mahākumāra* Lakṣmīvarman on or before V. S. 1200, while No. 5 places Jayavarman next to Yaśovarman. According to No. 6 Yaśovarman was succeeded by Jayavarman and the latter on or before V. S. 1235 by *Mahākumāra* Hariścandra son of *Mahākumāra* Lakṣmīvarman, while in No. 7 the line of succession passes from Yaśovarman through Jayavarman, Lakṣmīvarman and Hariścandra to *Mahākumāra* Udayavarman (V. S. 1256). "Here we naturally ask why the *Pb.-M.-P.* Jayavarma-deva should have been omitted in grant No. 4 and why *Mahākumāra* Lakṣmīvarman similarly should have been omitted in grant No. 6. Some indications of how these questions may have to be answered, would appear to be furnished by certain expressions which occur in grants Nos. 4 and 6. In No. 4, we read—*Śrīmaj-Jayavarmadeva-rājye vyatīte nija-kara-kṛta-karavāla-prasādāvāptanij-ādhipatya......Mahākumāra-Śrīmal-Lakṣmīvarmadeva*,¹ and in No. 6, *Śrī-Jayavarmadeva ity-etasmāt pr̥ṣṭhatama-prabhoḥ prasād-āvāpta-nij-ādhipatyaḥ....Mahākumāra-Śrī-Hariś-candradevaḥ*.’¹ Taking these expressions with what is otherwise known to us from the inscriptions Kielhorn conceived the succes-sion in the family of Yaśovarman to have been as follows:—