History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c19.s2.1

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Vijayacandra was succeeded by his son Jayacandra,⁴ whose mother was Queen Candra-lekhā according to the *Rambhāmañjarī* of Nayacandra.⁵ It is alleged that he was given this name on account of his grandfather having achieved a victory against the Daśārna country on the very day of his birth.⁶ We learn the actual date of his installation as crown-prince from an inscription which informs us that Jayacandra was “installed in the dignity of *yuvarāja* and endowed with all royal prerogatives” on the 10th *tithi* of the bright half of the month of Āṣāḍha of the Vikrama year 1224, corresponding exactly to Sunday, 16th June, 1168 A. D. It was on the same occasion that he was initiated as a worshipper of the god Kṛṣṇa after bathing in the Ganges at Benares, and he granted the village of Haripura in the Jiavai *pattalā* to the preceptor of the performance of the Vaiṣṇava worship, the Mahāpurohita Praharāja Śarman.¹ We are further told definitely in another epigraph, recording the grant of the village of Osia in the Bṛhadgṛhakamīśvara *pattalā* to the Mahāpurohita Prahlāda Śarman, that Jayacandra came to the throne on the 6th *tithi* of the bright half of the month of Āṣāḍha of the Vikrama year 1226, corresponding to Sunday, 21st June, 1170 A. D.²