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allies. This might seem to indicate that he did not himself undertake any important military expeditions. He continued to govern his kingdom with the help of a number of feudatories and generals. Among the former Koṇḍarāya of Berar and Nārāyaṇarāya of the Betul District figure in his records. These feudatories had no power to make land-grants without the permission of the emperor.¹ The military element was, it would appear, dominant in Pravarasena’s administration. Five of his generals, Chakravarman, Chitravarman, Bappadeva, Nemidāsa, and Kātyāyana, figure in his records as important government officers. Chamidāsa was the prime minister of the state in the 23rd year of the king’s reign. Pravarasena had organized his administration very efficiently; we shall enlarge on this point in greater detail below in our chapter dealing with the Vākāṭaka administration.