The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c34.s1.28

v2.c34.s1.28

Practically nothing is known about Khommāṇa I,² Mattaṭa, Bhartṛpatta I,³ Siṃha, Khommāṇa II, Mahāyaka, and Khommāṇa III, who according to the Atpur and other inscriptions are said to have ruled in succession after Kālabhoja. Tod quoting from *Khummāṇa-Rāso*, gives a description of the conflict between the Mewar prince ‘Khummāṇa’ and the Muslim leader ‘Mahmud Khorasan Pat’ when the latter invaded the Guhila territories.⁴ Tod identified ‘Khummāṇa’ with the first Guhila of that name, and thought that the name of the Muslim chief is a mistake for that of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma’mūn (813-33 A.D). If there is any historical foundation to this story, it is more probable, as Ojha suggests, that the prince who came into conflict with the Arab invaders was Khommāṇa II (c. 810-30 A.D.), and not the first of that name (c. 753-73 A.D.).⁵ The 3rd Guhila bearing the name Khommāṇa has been rightly identified with Khommāṇa, the father of Mahārājādhirāja Bhartṛpatta, the feudatory of the Kanauj emperor Mahendrapāla II (946 A.D.). The Partabgarh inscription of this last prince records that *M.*-Bhartṛpaṭṭa granted in perpetuity a field named Vavvulika (Babbulika) situated by the side of the river Nandyā in the village of Palāsa-Kūpikā to the (Sun) god Indrarājāditya-deva of Ghoṇṭāvarṣi in V.S. 999 (c. 942 A.D.).¹ Ojha would identify Palāsa-Kūpikā with Parāsia, which is about 15 miles south of Mandasor, and Ghaṇṭāvarṣi with Ghotarsi, about 7 miles east of Partabgarh. Another fragmentary stone-inscription which supplies a date for Bhartṛpaṭṭa, the son of Khummāṇa III, was discovered at Ahar near Udaipur.² It is dated in V. S. 1000 (c. 943 A.D.), in the reign of Bhartṛ (Bhartṛbhaṭa), and registers the construction of a temple of Ādivarāha (Viṣṇu)) at the Gaṅgodbheda-*tīrtha*³ by a person named Ādivarāha. It may be inferred from the Partabgarh inscription that during the period *c.* 800-950 A.D. the Guhilas of Nāgahrada were the feudatories of the Pratīhāra rulers of Avanti and Kanauj. According to Ojha, it was Bhartṛpaṭṭa II who founded the city of Bhartṛpura, identical with the modern village of Bhatevar, which has given the name *Bhartṛpurīya* to one of the Jaina *gacchas*.⁴