History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c17.s7.1

c17.s7.1

We do not know whether after this raid of Mahmud, Trilocanapāla abandoned Bari also for some safer corner of the kingdom, but it is certain that he survived the disaster, and continued to exercise a loose authority over the surrounding region.² This is evident from an inscription, discovered at Jhusi in Allahabad, which records that on the 26th June, 1027 A. D., he was in residence somewhere on the bank of the Ganges near Prayāga, and was in a position to make a grant of the village Labhundaka in the Asurabhaka *viṣaya* to the Brahmans of Pratiṣṭhāna.³ It is significant that he is therein honoured with the full imperial titles of P. M. P., but as the Pratihāra empire had now vanished as if into dreamland, it can only be interpreted as signifying that he wielded sovereign rights within his territory, and was free from external control. It is not recorded when Trilocanapāla ceased to rule, nor is there any definite information regarding his successor, but it appears likely that the Mahārājādhirāja Yaśaḥpāla, whose Karā (Allahabad district) inscription mentions the grant of a village named Payalāsa grāma in the Kausambi Maṇḍala in the (Vikrama) saṃvat 1093 or 1036, A. D., ascended the throne of Kanauj after him.¹