Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.248

c10.248

*Mālava country*.—The Mālava country evidently meaning the region round Ujjayinī and Bhilsā (modern Malwa) is mentioned in a number of later epigraphic records, e.g., Sagartal Inscription of the Gurjara-Pratīhāras, the Paiṭhān Plates of Rāṣṭrakūṭa Govinda III, etc. The Nasik Cave Inscription of Uṣavadāta (Ṛṣabhadatta) the Śaka, son-in-law of the Kṣatrapa Nahapāna, refers to the Mālava occupation of the Nagar area near Jaipur in Rajputana (*E.I.*, VIII, 44). The Mālava country is mentioned in the Tewar Stone Inscription of the reign of Jayasimhadeva of the Cedi year 929 (*E.I.*, II, 18-19). The Daṇḍanāyaka Anantapāla, a feudatory of Vikramāditya VI, is said to have subdued the Sapta Mālava countries up to the Himalayan mountains (*E.I.*, V, 229). The Mālavas, mentioned in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription, were in occupation of a province called Vagarcāl in the south-eastern portion of the Jaipur State. They appear to have occupied Mewar and Kotah of south-eastern Rajputana and the parts of Central India adjoining them (*I.A.*, 1891, p. 404). The Pathari Pillar Inscription of Parabala bears testimony to the existence of a Rāṣṭrakūṭa family in Malwa during the first half of the 9th century A.D. (*E.I.*, IX, 248).