History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c16.s1.t2.4

c16.s1.t2.4

Commenting on this stanza Dr. Fleet observed that the "work was finished in Śaka-*saṃvat* 705 (expired) = A. D. 783-84, when there were reigning—in various directions determined with reference to a town named Vardhamāna-pura, which is to be identified with the modern Wadhwan in the Jhalavad divison of Kāṭhiāwāḍ—in the north, Indrāyudha; in the south, Śrīvallabha; in the east Vatsarāja, king of Avanti (Ujjain); and in the west Varāha or Jayavarāha, in the territory of the Sauryas². This interpretation was later on called in question by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar,³ but, as in view of the new light thrown by the Sanjan plates, the learned professor himself has "no doubt now as to the correctness of Dr.