History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c17.s5.1.5

c17.s5.1.5

D., discovered at Osia in the Jodhpur state.² It is indeed noteworthy that this record calls him a Pratihāra, but he may have been only a scion of some local branch of the family, or a gubernatorial representative over whom the control of Kanauj had become very loose¹. The truth of the whole matter is that although the historicity of a second Vināyakapāla may be accepted, there is nothing definite in our present state of knowledge to support the insertion of Mahīpāla II or Vatsarāja II into the Imperial line.