Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c26.28

c26.28

⁴ Dharasena II, king of Valabhi, left two sons, *viz.*, Sīlāditya II Dharmāditya and Kharagraha I. The account of Hiuen Tsang seems to suggest that in his time (*i.e.*, shortly after Sīlāditya) the Maitraka dominions split up into two parts, one part including Mo-la-po and its dependencies probably obeying the line of Sīlāditya-Dharmāditya, the other part, including Valabhi, obeying Kharagraha and his sons, one of whom was Dhruvasena II, Bālāditya or Dhruvabhaṭa, who married the daughter of Harsha of Kanauj. The account of the Chinese pilgrim seems to receive confirmation from the Alina plate of Sīlāditya VII (Fleet, CII, 171 f. esp. 182n) which associates Derabhaṭa, the son of Sīlāditya I Dharmāditya, with the region of the Sahya and Vindhya mountains, while the descendants of Kharagraha I are connected with Valabhī. The Navalakhi and Nogāwā plates, however, suggest that occasionally the same ruler governed both Mālavaka and Valabhī. In the latter half of the seventh century A. D. the line of Kharagraha I became extinct, and the Maitraka dominions were once more united. For an alleged connection of the Valabhī dynasty with the Kanarese country, see Moraes, *Kadamba-kula*, 64 f. The recently discovered Virdi copperplate grant of Kharagraha I of the year 297 (=A.D. 616-17) shows that for a time that ruler held Ujjain (*Pro of the 7th Or. Conf.* 659 ff.). It is from the camp at Ujjain that the grant was issued.