The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.31

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Devapāla was succeeded by his brother, Vijayapāla (*c.* A. D. 960–90),⁶ whose reign is marked by the loss of Gwālior, the ancient possession of his house, which was captured by a Kachchhwāha (Kachchhapaghāta) chief named Vajradāman,¹ the founder of a local dynasty which held the fortress until A.D. 1128. The establishment of the Solankī (Chaulukya) kingdom of Anhilwāra in Gujarāt by Mūlarāja, about the middle of the tenth century, shows that the king of Kanauj no longer had any concern with Western India.² The Gwālior chieftain became a feudatory of the Chandēl monarchy, which, under Dhanga (*c.* 1000–1050), evidently was stronger than its rival of Kanauj.