The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.43

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Nothing is known about Trilochanapāla except that he ineffectually resisted Mahmūd's passage of the Jumna at the end of 1019 or the beginning of 1020, and made the grant of a village near Allāhābād in A. D. 1027.¹ A Rāja named Yasaḥpāla, who is mentioned in an inscription of A.D. 1036, may have been his immediate successor.² Other obscure chiefs continued to be recognized as Rājas of Kanauj, and governed a considerable territory, no doubt in subordination to Muhammadan kings, even after the reduction of Kanauj in 1194. The names of some of these chiefs have been preserved. They seem to have resided at Zafarābād near Jaunpur. But these later chiefs did not belong to the old Gurjara-Pratīhāra dynasty, which disappeared utterly. Kanauj had been conquered and occupied, a little before A.D. 1090, by a Rāja of the Gaharwār clan, named Chandradeva, who established his authority certainly over Benares and Ajodhyā, and perhaps over the Delhi territory.³ The city of Delhi had been founded about a century earlier, in A.D. 993–4.⁴