History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s20: 6 Kashtawar.

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The small hill state of Kāshṭhavāta (modern Kashtawar) was ruled during this period by a Rajput family which was a dependent of Kashmir, as the name of a king Uttamarāja of Kāshṭhavāta appears among the names of those eight feudatories who attended on Kalaśa king of Kashmir in 1087 A. D. (See Vol. I p. 236). It may be noted that Suket and Mandi kings are not mentioned therein. From the article of Hutchinson and Vogel in J. Panjab H. S. Vol. IV (p. 29-41) on the history of the Kashtawar state, the princes of Kashtawar appear to belong to the family of Suket and Mandi and also believe that they came from Gaur. Their names also end mostly in the suffix sena. This tradition, as stated already, is wrong being based on the name-ending sena only. The king Uttamarāja mentioned as ruling in 1087 A. D. however, did not belong to this family as his name does not appear in the Vamśāvali of Kashtawar supplied by the modern representative who is a Mahomedan convert Rajput. It seems to us that the first king Kahnapāla who was sprung from the Suket family came to this part later and conquered it about 1200 A. D. or thereafter. We are not concerned with the history of this family in later and Mogul times though it is given in detail by Hutchinson and Vogel in the article above referred to. This state is now a part of Kashmir, having been conquered by the Sikhs in the days of Ranjitsing. The family was a Chandravamśi family with Atri as its gotra, being of the same clan as the Suket family. To what clan Uttamarāja’s family belonged which ruled during our sub-period, there is no material to determine.