The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.306

v2.c30.s4.306

The inscriptions of Lakṣmīvarman's successors noticed above range from V.S. 1200 to 1256, corresponding to *c*. 1144 to 1200 A.D. On account of the difficulties in identifying the places mentioned in the grants of predecessors of Udayavarman, it is impossible to fix the location of the principality, which Lakṣmīvarman claims to have carved out with his own sword. But it is significant that Hariścandra, before he made his grants in V.S. 1235-36 (*c*. 1178-79 A.D.) bathed in the Narmadā. If the identifications proposed by Fleet of the localities mentioned in the grant of Udayavarman be accepted, they tend to show that in V.S. 1256 (*c*. 1200 A.D) he was in possession of a portion of the Bhopal Agency.⁷ The occupation of the Bhopal region was no doubt made possible by the death of the Caulukya emperor Kumārapāla (*c*. 1144-73 A.D.), the murder of his successor Ajayapāla (*c.* 1173-76 A.D.), and the complications that inevitably followed the rule of minors.¹ The rapid succession of so many calamities must have weakened the hold of the Caulukya rulers upon Western Malwa; and it seems likely that this region was gradually recovered for the Paramāras by the successors of Lakṣmīvarman.