The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.49

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⁵ The 'Rāthōr dynasty of Kanauj' commonly mentioned in books is a myth. The Rājas belonged to the Gahaḍavāla or Gaharwār clan, as is expressly affirmed in the Basāhi copperplate grant of Govindachandra dated 1161 v. E. = A. D. 1104 (No. 77 of *List*; *Ind. Ant.*, xiv, 103), and recognized by the traditions of the Gautam clan (*J. A. S. B.*, part i, vol. liv (1885), p. 160). The appellation 'Rāthōr' applied to the Kanauj Rājas is due solely to the claim made by the 'Rāṭhōr' chiefs of Jodhpur to be descended from Rāja Jaichand (Jayachchandra, *Ind. Ant.*, xiv, 98–101) through a boy who escaped massacre. Stories of this kind are commonplaces of family traditions and historically worthless. No Tomara dynasty of Kanauj ever existed.