History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c17.s5.32

c17.s5.32

The Cāhamānas of Sākambharī or Sambhar, originally feudatories of the Pratīhāras⁵, also took advantage of the prevailing confusion and made themselves supreme in Central Rajputana. This is evident from the Harṣa stone inscription, which gives us the Vikrama year 1030 = 973 A. D. for Vigraharāja II,¹ and represents him as having "rescued both the fortune of his family and the fortune of victory from the distress which had befallen them."² Indeed, if the "universal sovereign of the earth in Ragu's race" (Raghukula-bhu-cakravarti) mentioned in verse 19 of the above record, is identical with one of the later Pratīhāra monarchs, as supposed by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar³ on the authority of Rājaśekhara, the power and prestige of the Cāhamānas must have grown considerably even during the time of Vigraharāja's predecessor, Simharāja, for otherwise how are we to explain the unique circumstance of the suzerain personally visiting his feudatory in order to secure the release of the princes captured by the latter in his war against the Tomara chief Salavaṇa.