The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s5.3.1

v2.c32.s5.3.1

According to Nayacandra, Govinda was succeeded by his eldest son Bālhaṇa and the latter by his eldest son Prahlāda. The *Manglana stone-inscription* dated in (V.) S. 1272 (*c.* 1215 A.D.) seems to show that Vallaṇadeva (*i.e.*, Bālhaṇa) was still a feudatory of the *Hamīra* Samasadāṇa (Shams ud-Dīn Iltutmish) of the city of Joginī. The marble stone bearing this inscription was found at Manglana, 19 miles W. of Maroth in Marwar. It records the construction of a step-well by Vallaṇa's feudatory, the Dadhīca *Mahārāja-putra Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara* Jayatasiṁha.² Prahlāda's younger brother Vāgbhaṭa served him as his primeminister. Prahlāda died in a lion-hunt, and was succeeded by his son Vīranārāyaṇa, who is reported by Nayacandra to have been decoyed to Yoginīpura (Delhi) and poisoned the Śaka (Muslim) prince Jallāladīna. I am unable to identify this Delhi Sulṭān. The only prince bearing that name in the 13th century is Fīrūz(A.D. 1290-96), the first of the Khaljī kings of Delhi; but his date forbids identification with him. It seems extremely probable that by ‘Jallāladīna’ Nayacandra really meant Shams ud-Dīn Iltutmish (1211-36 A.D.), whose officers according to the *Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī* took the impregnable fort in 623 A.H. (1226 A.D.).¹ Vāgbhaṭa, Vīranārāyaṇa’s uncle, we are told, was absent from Ranthambhor at the time of his nephew’s tragic death; he had been insulted by him, and consequently he had retired to Malwa in dudgeon.