History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c16.s1.t6.20

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Whatever possessions Mahendrapāla might have thus lost in the Panjab it is certain from another Pehoa inscription that the district of Karnal continued to remain under Kanauj as it had been in the reign of his predecessor.² In the north his authority certainly extended upto the foot of the Himālayas, for the Dighwa-Dubauli plate issued by him from Kanauj records the grant of the village of Pāniyakagrāma, which lay so far distant as the Vālayikā Viṣaya of the Srāvastī-Maṇḍala in the present Nepalese Tarai, to the Bhaṭṭa Padmasara.³ The extent of Mahendrapāla’s kingdom in other directions is no doubt difficult to determine but it may well be presumed that he retained his jurisdiction over the territories, which were transmitted to him by his father Bhoja. Thus, the Siyadoni inscription, mentioning Mahendrapāla as the ruling sovereign in 903 and 907 A. D., makes it clear that the Gwalior region continued to be included within the Pratihāra realm. In passing we may add that there are certain indications of sporadic fights and unrest in this part, since the chieftain Uṇḍabhaṭa, who is recorded as a donor in this epigraph, is known from another inscription discovered at Terahi⁴ to have fought against the forces of a rival chief Guṇarāja, in which Caṇḍiyana, an adherent of the latter, was killed.