The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s6.5

v2.c32.s6.5

informs us that Lakṣmaṇa was the son of the Cāhamāna king Vākpatirāja of Sākambharī.¹ As Kīrtipāla is 11th in lineal descent from Vākpatirāja, the latter is undoubtedly identical with the first prince of that name in the Śākambharī branch, who ruled about the middle of the 10th century A. D. The connection of Lakṣmaṇa with this branch is also established by the fact that he is called *Śākambharīndra* in the Sundha hill inscription of Cāciga (V. S. 1319).² The epithet may mean prince of Śākambharī, as Kielhorn supposed; but it may contain a veiled hint that he was also a claimant for the ancestral throne when his brother Siṁharāja succeeded their father. This may be one of the reasons which led him to migrate from his ancestral home in search of a new dominion. No inscriptions of Lakṣmaṇa have yet been published. But Tod refers to two of his records dated in V. S. 1024 (*c.* 967 A. D.) and 1039 (*c.* 982 A. D.). An inscription on the *Sūraj-pol* at Nadol, which is reported to have been erected by him, contains his name, showing the authenticity of the tradition that he really established himself in that town. The fort of Nadol, which bears his name, and which is also said to have been constructed by him, also connects him with Naddūla.