The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.216

v2.c32.s4.216

⁵ Sarda accepts Govindarāja as the name of Pṛthvīrāja's son, see *JRAS*, 1913, p. 268, fn. 16. In his *Hammīra-mahākāvya* Nayacandra seems to describe Govindarāja as the ‘grandson (*pautra*) of Pṛthvīrāja,’ who was banished from the kingdom by his father; Text, Ed. by N. J. Kirtane, Bombay, 1879, p. 28, IV, 24; *IA*, Vol. VIII, p. 62. But I have a suspicion that he has committed a mistake. The verse of Nayacandra is as follows : This presupposes that Pṛthvīrāja's son exiled Govindarāja before the latter founded his principality in Ranthambhor. But Muslim accounts show that Pṛthvīrāja's son was already in that fort hard pressed by Harirāja. It is thus possible that *pa tro* is a mistake for *putro*. See also *JRAS*, 1913, p. 268, fn. 16; *EI*, Vol. XIX, p. 47.