The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.286

v2.c30.s4.286

The above suggestions of Kielhorn, though not entirely free from difficulties, are under the present circumstances the best solution of the problem presented by the genealogical lists of the later Paramāras. It is however certain that the Paramāra dominions, already reduced by the Caulukya occupation, were after Yaśovarman’s death still further dismembered by division amongst his successors. Of the reign of Jayavarman, who perhaps succeeded Yaśovarman we have only one undated inscription. This is his *Ujjain grant*, so named because it was obtained from that city in Malwa. Unfortunately one of (probably) two plates has been only discovered. It contains 16 lines, and opens with *Om svasti*, and two verses in eulogy of *Śiva* (*Vyomakeśa Smarārāti*), followed by the donor’s genealogy.¹ It next records that *Pb.-M.-P.* Yaśovarmadeva-*pādānu-dhyāta Pb.-M.-P.*-Naravarmadeva, from his residence at Vardhamānapura, informs his officials and the people concerned that while in residence at Candrapurī he has granted the village of Māyamōḍaka, belonging to Vaṭakhetaka-Ṣaṭtriṁśat, to a Brāhman living at Rājabrahmapurī (name lost), who had emigrated from Adriyalavidāvarī.² The extant portion contains no date; but Kielhorn assigns it ‘with certainty to the time between the Vikrama years 1192 and 1200.’³ No grants have yet been discovered of the next prince Ajayavarman. But we have the *Ujjain grant* for the next brother Lakṣmīvarman. It was so named, because it was also found in the city of Ujjain in Malwa. It contains 20 lines, incised on two plates and opens exactly in the same way as the grant of Jayavarman. Then follows the genealogy of the donor.⁴ Next it mentions the grant made by his father in V.S. 1191 from Dhārā.⁵ We are then told that in V.S. 1200 (*c.* 1144 A.D.) *Pb.-M.-P.* Yaśovarmaveda-*pādānudhyāta-Samadhigata-Pañca-mahā-śabd-ālaṅkāra-virājamāna-Mahākumāra*-Lakṣmīvarman confirmed the grant made by his father.¹ Lakṣmīvarman was succeeded by his son Hariścandra for whose reign we have the *Piplianagar grant*, found in the village of Piplianagar in the Shujalpur pargana, Bhopal Agency, C.I. It opens with *Oṁ Śrī-Gaṇeśāya namaḥ*; then follow two verses in praise of Śiva (*Vyomakeśa* and *Smarārāti*), and the genealogy of the donor.² The inscription next records that the *Samadhigata-Pañca-mahā-śabd-ālaṁkāra-virājamāna-Mahākumāra*-Hariścandradeva, who obtained sovereignty (*ādhipatya*) by the favour (*prasāda*) of *Pb.-M.-P.*-Jayavarmadeva, in V.S. 1235 (c. 1178 A.D), after bathing in the Narmadā, near the (temple of) the god Caturmukha Mārkaṇḍeśvara granted two shares (*aṁśa-dvayam*) of the Palasavāḍā³-*grāma*, belonging to *Maḍāpadra-pratijāgaraṇaka* of the Nilagiri⁴-*maṇḍala* to the donee *Paṇḍita* Daśaratha Śarman. It further records that in V.S. 1236 (*c.* 1179 A.D.) the same donor made some further grants to the *Paṇḍita* Mālune Śarman, and ends with the sign-manual of the donor, who describes himself as the son of *Mahākumāra* Lakṣmīvarman and a sun (*kamala-bandhu*) to the *Paramāra-kula-kamala*.⁵