The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s6.115

v2.c32.s6.115

Of these four inscriptions the first shows Ālhaṇa as a feudatory of the Caulukya Kumārapāla. In the Sundha-hill inscription he is stated to have aided the Gurjara king in putting down disturbances in the mountainous parts of Saurāṣṭra (*Girau Saurāṣṭre*).³ It was probably for this faith-ful service to his sovereign that he got a small principality in the region now known as Mallani. His second inscrip-tion shows that by the year 1161 A. D. he had so much pleased Kumārapāla as to be restored to his ancestral principality of Nadol. Though his grant does not mention Kumārapāla's name, we must assume that Ālhaṇa still continued to be subservient to him. His humble title of *Mahārāja* is inconsistent with sovereign authority. This recovery of Nadol must have occurred sometime between V. S. 1216, the last date of Vaijalladeva in Godwar, and V. S. 1218, the date of Ālhaṇa's Nadol grant.