The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s6.27

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The existence of this branch is known from a stone-inscription dated in V.S. 1174 (*c.* 1118 A.D.) which is reported to have been discovered in a temple of Śiva at Jalor, in the State of Jodhpur. It supplies the following list of the princes of this family: (1) Vākpati-rāja, his son, (2) Candana, his son, (3) Devarāja, his son, (4) Aparājita, his son, (5) Vijjala, his son, (6) Dhārāvarṣa, and his son, (7) Vīsala. It records that in the year mentioned above Mallāradevī, the queen of No. 7, placed a golden *Kalaśa* on the temple of Sindhurājeśvara.⁴ Rai Bahadur G. H. Ojha thinks that this line was an offshoot of the Abu Paramāras, and he refers Vākpatirāja of this inscription and Mahīpāla-Devarāja of the Abu line to the same period. To me however it seems that the Vākpati of the Jalor inscription was possibly Vākpati II (*c.* 974-95 A.D.) of the Mālava line, and thus he may be identical with Utpalarāja to whom the earlier Abu Paramāras trace their genealogy.⁵ In that case we must suppose that after conquering the Sukri valley in the Jodhpur State, Vākpati II placed another of his sons as his feudatory over this tract. It is possible that after the disastrous defeat of Bhoja (*c.* 1010-55 A.D.) this line became independent of the control of the parent branch. The successors of Udayāditya do not appear to have been strong enough to exercise control over their distant kinsmen in Marwar. There is no record of the history of Vīsala's immediate successors. According to Mūṭā Neṇsī Jalor was wrested from the Paramāras by Kīrtipāla, a brother of the Nadol Cāhamāna Kelhaṇa (*c.* 1164-79 A.D.).¹ We have seen that a section of the descendants of Kīrtipāla, the *Devḍa* Cāhamānas subsequently ousted the Paramāras also from Abu.