The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.32

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⁶ A stone inscription at Bayana of A. D. 955 records the erection of a temple by a queen named Chitralekha during the reign of a Mahārājādhirājā Mahīpāla, who appears to have belonged to the Kanauj dynasty. If this is so, this Mahīpāla must have succeeded Devapāla and have reigned for a very brief time, as another inscription of A. D. 960 shows that Vijayapāla had gained the throne four or five years after the date of the Bayana inscription (*Prog. Rep. A. S. W. Circle*, 1919, p. 43).