The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s3.1
The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s3.1
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This branch is known from the *Partabgarh stone-inscription* of the Pratīhāra emperor Mahendrapāla II,⁵ whose gift of a village for the cult of the goddess Vaṭa-Yakṣiṇī-devī in V. S. 1003 (A.D. 946) is recorded in it. But it also contains references to earlier grants to various shrines attacked to the monastery of Hari-Ṛṣīśvara. We are told that the provincial governor of Mahendrapāla resident at Ujain, at the request of the Cāhamāna *Mahāsāmanta* Indrarāja, granted a village for the cult of Indrādityadeva. The inscription gives the following genealogy of the Cāhamāna chief :