History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c18.s1.t1.16

c18.s1.t1.16

In the east, Candradeva seems to have taken part in repressing the aggressive activities of Vijayasena, who, according to the Deopara inscription, had attacked the king of Gauḍa, defeated and imprisoned Nānyadeva of Mithila; and whose fleet was once sailing “in its playful conquest of the western regions up the whole course of the Ganges”.⁴ The monarch, with whom Candradeva allied himself, must have been Madanapāla of the Pāla dynasty,⁵ and it is perhaps in allusion to this help that the Rāmacarita of Sandhyākara Nāndi speaks of him so eulogistically in the following verses: