The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.232

v2.c31.232

(5) *Dohad stone pillar-inscription.*—Contains 13 lines, carved on a stone pillar, lying close to the sluice of a tank at Dohad in the Panch Mahāls. The inscription opens with *Oṁ namo bhagavate Vāsudevāya*. Then comes the name of Jayasiṁhadeva the ruler of Gūrjara-*maṇḍala*, who threw into prison the lords of Surāṣṭra and Mālava; he who destroyed other kings, as Sindhurāja and others, and made the kings of the North bear his commands (respectfully) on their heads like Śeṣa; he whose *rājadhānī* was Aṇahila-pāṭaka. Then we are told that from him the *Vāhinī-pati* Keśava obtained a commission as *Senāpati* over Dadhipadra and other *maṇḍalas*. ‘The…*mantrī* appointed by him at Dadhipadra established the temple of Goga-Nārāyaṇa, for the good of his mother,’ in V.S. 1196 (*c.* 1140 A.D.).¹