Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c26.35

c26.35

³ *Ind. Ant.*, 1886, 142; *Ep. Ind.*, XVIII, 1926, 239 (verse 9 of Sañjam grant); *cf.* *Ep. Ind.*, XIV, p. 177 (reference to a governor of Ujjain under the Pratīhāra King Mahendrapāla II). In the Sañjam inscription it is claimed that at Ujjain an early Rāshtrakūṭa king made the Gurjara and other lords his door-keepers (*Pratīhāra*). It is not improbable that, like the Paramāras, the Gurjara lords brought to Ujjain were for a long time feudatories of the Rāshtrakūṭas and the name *Pratīhāra* had reference to their status under the Rāshtrakūṭas, before the theory of descent from Lakshmaṇa was adumbrated. Incidentally it may be pointed out that the home territory (Svadishaya) of Nāgabhaṭa's line was in Marwar as is clear from the Jaina Kuvalayamāla and the Buchkala inscription.