The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c33.40

v2.c33.40

Their names were all taken from legends of coins which are of the usual ‘Bull and horseman’ or the ‘Seated goddess’ type.³ I do not know the reason that led him to identify them with the Tomaras. His attempt to prove that the ‘Bauüra’ king of Kanauj mentioned by the Arab chroniclers were ‘Tovara or Tomara’ princes is hardly convincing.⁴ I have shewn elsewhere⁵ that ‘Bauüra’ probably was a corrupt form of the word ‘Pratīhāra,’ members of which dynasty ruled in Kanauj at the time of the visit of the Arab writers mentioned above.⁶ In support of the identification of one of these princes, named Anaṅgapāla, some feeble evidence seems to be contained in the bardic tradition about the three Tomara princes of that name¹ and the statement of Amīr Khusrau² that he "heard a story that in Delhi about five or six hundred years ago, there was a great *Rāī* called Anangpāl."³ Cunningham identified this Anangpāl of Amīr Khusrau with the traditional founder of Delhi, and the Anaṅgapāla of the coins with the second prince of that name in the bardic lists of the Rajputs.⁴