The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.1

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The earliest inscription of this branch is still the Harṣa stone inscription² of the time of Vigraharāja II dated in V. S. 1030 (A.D. 973). It carries back the genealogy of the Cāhamānas for six generations up to Gūvaka I, who, as we shall presently see, was a contemporary and feudatory of the Pratīhāra emperor Nāgabhaṭa II (*c.* 815 A.D.). The much later Bijolia rock-inscription, dated in V. S. 1226 (*c.* 1169 A. D.), in the reign of Someśvara, however, gives the names of 27 predecessors of Someśvara. Morison in 1893, first published a list of Cāhamāna princes from a Sanskrit work named *Pṛthvīrāja-vijaya*,³ which on comparison was found to agree closely with the list supplied by the two inscriptions mentioned above. To these lists and that given in *Hammīra-mahākāvya* of Nayacandra¹ H. B. Sarda² has added two more pedigrees contained in the *Prabandhakośa*³ and the *Surjan-carita*.⁴ The last scholar has contributed a critical and comparative chart of all these genealogies, and drawn the reasonable conclusion that, in the present state of our knowledge, the lists supplied by the *Pṛthvīrāja-vijaya* and tested by the evidence of the Bijholi inscription may be accepted as reliable.