History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c37.s3.5

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We may lastly point out that the practice of raising Kirtistambhas is very old in India (vide Raghu canto XII verse*) and we find in a Sena inscription that Lakshmaṇa Sena of Lakhnauti raised (three) Kirtistambhas in Allahabad, Benares and Jagannāth. It is probable that this Kirtistambha upto the first storey was built by Visaladeva Chauhan whose conquest of the whole of Northern India and whose driving out of Mlechhas from Āryāvarta and making it real Āryāvarta (verse already quoted) was memorable and is commemorated on the Siwalik Pillar of Delhi. It is possible that Visala after his arduous conquest of Delhi ("fatigued in the capture of Delhi"-Bijoliya Insc.) raised a column of victory in the Lalkot of Anangapāla. Visala is nearly contemporaneous with Lakshmaṇasena and both were emperors, the firs in the west and the second in the east of Northern India. The latter is recorded, as stated above, to have raised victory pillars and it is plausible to hold that Visala raised a column at Delhi.