The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s5.49

v2.c32.s5.49

Nayacandra's story of Hammīra's victories is unsupported by reliable evidence, with the possible exception of one incident, his victory over Arjuna of Sarasapura. In his Balvan inscription mentioned above, Hammīra is credited with a victory over one Arjuna, ‘thereby depriving Mālava of the fame and glory which it then enjoyed.’³ Probably the Arjuna of the *Hammīra-mahākāvya* is identical with the Arjuna of the inscription. I have already tentatively accepted him as a Paramāra ruler, and probably the predecessor of Bhoja II of Dhārā.¹ But it is not impossible that both of them were contemporaries ruling over different portions of the disintegrated Paramāra dominions.