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northern Bengal sometime during this interval, and as no inscription gives the credit for this achievement to Bhoja, nor any of his records has been found outside the eastern limits of the United Provinces, it is reasonable to conclude that the event probably took place soon after Mahendrapāla’s accession.¹ Perhaps the Cātsū inscription also contains a reference to it, since we learn that Guhila with excellent horses from the sea-coast vanquished the king of Gauḍa and levied tribute from princes in the east.² Now, Guhila was the son of Harṣarāja, the feudatory of Bhoja I, and as such a minor chief of Rajputana is not expected to invade the distant eastern regions on his own account, we may well suppose that he accompanied his Pratihāra suzerain in his expedition against Magadha and Bengal, and shared victories with him.