[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937) › c19.s1.6 # History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c19.s1.6 History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c19.s1.6 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1.6) ruler. How could they then ever have come into conflict with each other? On the other hand, the \*Kumārapālacarita-Prakrit-Dvyāśraya-Mahākāvya\* of Hemacandra represents Kumārapāla as having devastated Kānyakubja and terrified its sovereign in the course of his glorious career.¹ Now, Kumārapāla is known to have ruled from \*circa\* 1144 to 1172 A. D., and so if there be any truth in the above statement, which is, of course, doubtful, surely he must have triumphed against Vijayacandra, for it appears rather improbable that Kumārapāla’s earlier Gāhaḍavāla contemporary, Govindacandra—a powerful potentate—could have ever suffered a reverse at his hands. Thus though we cannot rely upon Cand-Bardāi, one thing appears certain that Vijayacandra maintained his authority over a portion of Magadha. This is evident from an inscription of Vikrama \*saṃvat\* 1225 = 1169 A. D., discovered at Tārācaṇḍi in the vicinity of Sahasram in South Bihar,² in which the local ruler of Japila,³ Pratāpadhavala of the Khayaravala \*vaṃśa\* according to the Phulawariya (Rohtasgaḍh) inscription,⁴ makes a curious proclamation. He announces that a certain copperplate grant of the villages of Kalahandi and Badapila has been fraudulently procured by several Brahmans, on giving a bribe of goodly staves and ploughs, from one Deu, “a slave of the lord of Kānyakubja, the fortunate king Vijayacandra.” He concludes by exhorting his successors not to place dependence on it, but to continue the collection of the “proprietor’s share of produce and the like” as usual. Thus whatever resentment Pratāpadhavala might have felt,¹ the fact that in the year 1169 A. D. Vijayacandra was in a position to grant villages situated in the former's territory, proves beyond doubt that he was under the suzerainty of Kanauj. - [Previous: c19.s1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1.5) - [Next: c19.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1.7) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kumārapālacarita (Prākṛtadvyāśraya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.jaina.dvyasraya.kumarapalacarita) — Hemacandra, Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c19.s1.6) · Pramāṇa