The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s2: (2) Cāhamānas of Dhavalapurī
The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s2
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(2) Cāhamānas of Dhavalapurī
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The existence of this branch was made known by the discovery of a *Stone-inscription at Dholpur*: It contains 26 lines, incised on a black stone in the Residency of the Dholpur State, Rajputana. It opens with a eulogy of the Sun-god (*Bhāsvat*, *Bhāskara*). Then follows the genealogy of a king named Caṇḍamahāsena:
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``` In the Cāhavāṇa-vaṁśa
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Isuka
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Mahiṣarāma = Kaṇhullā...performed satī when her
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| husband died.
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Caṇḍamahāsena or Caṇḍa. ```
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This last prince lived in Dhavalapurī.¹ The proper object of the inscription is to record the building of a temple of Caṇḍasvāmin, together with a pond and a well. The date of the consecration of the temple is V. S. 898 (A.D. 842).²
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¹ Identified with mod. Dholpur, *ZDMG*, Vol. XL, p. 38.
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² Edited by Hultzsch, *ZDMG*, Vol. XL, pp. 38-42.
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Caṇḍamahāsena's family appear to have been feudatory princes. Possibly he acknowledged the sovereignty of the Pratīhāra emperor Bhoja, who had captured Kanauj sometimes before 836 A.D. The only thing known about him is that the *Mleccha* lords who were established on the banks of the Carmaṇvatī (Chambal) paid him homage ;³ I am unable to suggest the identification of these *Mlecchas*.⁴
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³ *Carmaṇvatī-taṭa-dvaya-saṁsthita-Mlechādhipa-pravarāḥ*, *īpsitaṇā praṇatā sevāṁ kurvanti yosyānu.*
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⁴ Is it possible that there were during that period some Arab settlements in the Chambal valley as a result of a long series of Arab raids from the lower Indus valley? See *supra*, *DHNI*, Vol. I, Chapter I.