The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.182

v2.c32.s4.182

These inscriptions range from V. S. 1236 to 1245 corresponding to *c.* 1179 to 1189 A. D. Besides these records, silver and billion coins of the usual 'Bull and horseman' type, which were first imitated by his father, have also been discovered for his reign.¹ I have elsewhere² discussed the stories of Pṛthvīrāja's hostility with the Candrātreya Madanavarman and the Gāhaḍavāla Jayaccandra. The story of the *Svayaṁvara* of the latter's daughter Saṁyogitā and her abduction by Pṛthvīrāja as told by the *Pṛthvīrāja Rāso* of Cand Bardāī,³ reads more like romance than history. The chronology of this Hindi Epic has been shown to be full of absurdities,⁴ and undoubtedly in its present state it contains much unhistorical matter. Nevertheless there is good ground to believe that the facts narrated by him, though exaggerated, have an historical kernel. Thus the Madanpur inscriptions of Pṛthvīrāja really show that he was on hostile terms with the Candella monarch, and had invaded and plundered, if not annexed, a large portion of the Candella territory beyond the Betwa. Whether Pṛthvīrāja actually captured Mahoba and plundered Kalinjar, as Cand says, is more than can be admitted at present. But I have shown from the Candella records that there was friendship between the Gāhaḍavālas and the Candellas,⁵ and the struggle which according to Cand was opened with the battle on the Pahuj may well have been a duel between these two allies on one hand and the Cāhamānas on the other. The *Vyāyoga Pārtha-parākrama* indirectly refers to hostilities between the Cāhamāna Pṛthvīrāja and the Caulukya Bhīma II (*c.* 1178-1241