[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c32.s5.3.1 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s5.3.1 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s5.3.1 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.s5.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.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. - [Previous: v2.c32.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c32.s5.2) - [Next: v2.c32.s5.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c32.s5.3.2) - [Up: v2.c32.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c32.s5.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c32.s5.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c32.s5.3.1) · Pramāṇa