The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.14

v2.c32.14

Epigraphic evidence supports the bardic tradition that the Cāhamānas were divided into many branches. Some of these were unquestionably feudatories of the Pratihāras of Avanti and Kanauj. Thus the Hansot plates of the Cāhamāna Bhartṛvaḍḍha (V.S. 813 = A.D. 756) show that he owed allegiance to Nāgāvaloka, rightly identified with Nāgabhaṭa I (*c.* 725 A.D.), while the Harṣa stone-inscription reveals the dependence of Gūvaka I on another Nāgāvaloka, *alias* Nāgabhaṭa II² (*c.* 815 A.D.). The Partabgarh inscription of the time of Mahendrapāla II (V.S. 1003 = A.D. 946) mentions his feudatory the Cāhamāna *Mahāsāmanta* Indrarāja.³ During the period *c.* 750 to 950 A.D. most of the regions over which the Cāhamānas ruled were certainly included in the Pratihāra dominions. It was probably Vigraharāja II (A.D. 973), of the Sākambharī branch, who first became free from the control of the house of Raghu' (Pratīhāras), to whom his father Siṁharāja had still paid homage.¹