Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s5.10

c22.s5.10

Yaśodharman claims to have extended his sway as far as the Lauhitya or Brahmaputra in the east. It is not improbable that he defeated and killed **Vajra**, the son of Bālāditya,² and extinguished the viceregal family of the Dattas of Puṇḍra-vardhana. Hiuen Tsang mentions a king of Central India as the successor of Vajra. The Dattas, who governed Puṇḍra-vardhana from the time of Kumāra Gupta I, disappear about this time. But Yaśodharman's success must have been short-lived, because in A.D. 543-44, ten years after the Mandasor inscription which mentions the *Janendra* Yaśodharman as victorious, the son (?) and viceroy of a Gupta *parama-bhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja pṛithivīpati*, ‘supreme sovereign, king of kings, lord of the earth,’ and not any official of the Central Indian *Janendra*, was governing the Puṇḍra-vardhana-*bhukti*, a province which lay between the Indian interior and the Lauhitya.