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Fleet’s translation,”¹ we omit to discuss his rendering here.² Now the chief point to be noticed in Dr. Fleet’s translation is that it gives the king’s personal name in each case, and equates Vatsarāja with the ruler of Avanti (Ujjain). This Vatsarāja has been accepted on all hands to be identical with the monarch of the same name mentioned in the Kanauj Pratīhāra inscriptions as predecessor of Nāgabhaṭa II and grand-nephew of Nāgabhaṭa I, the founder of the line. We may, therefore, safely draw the inference that the predecessors of the Pratīhāra conqueror of Kanauj had their seat of power at Ujjain and not Śrīmāla or Bhinmal in Southern Rajputana, as was at one time asserted by Smith and other scholars.³ Support for this view may further be found in a verse occurring in the Sanjan plates of Amoghavarṣa I, dated in the Saka year 793 or 871 A. D.⁴ It says :