Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c25.15

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in the Deoli (940 A.D.) and Karhad (959 A.D.) plates of Kṛṣṇa III does not imply that the Pratihāra fortresses of Kālañjara and Citrakūṭa (Chitor) were captured by the Rāṣṭrakūṭas who, however, merely threatened them. The claim of Govinda IV having been served by the Ganges and the Jumna does not, again, prove his mastery over the Doab, but simply refers to the artificial representation of Gaṅgā and Yamunā at his palace gate. The *praśasti* of the Cālukya chief Narasimha, probably a feudatory of Indra III to have defeated Pratihāra Mahīpāla I and to have bathed his horses at the junction of the *Gaṅgā-vārdayoḥ* as found in the *Pampa-Bhārata* appears to be a hopeless The identity of Kālāpriya with Kālpī is proved by epigraphic evidence. In the Khaḍāvadā inscription (1484 A.D.) of king Ghiyās Khalji of Maṇḍū, Husaṁga Gorī (Hushang Alp Khān Ghūrī) is represented as having defeated Kādira Sāhi (Abdul Qādir), ruler of Kālāpriya-pattana, and having made the latter's son, Salaha, a Khān at Māṇḍū. This Kālāpriya-pattana is apparently different from Ujjain and Kanauj and is no doubt the same as Kālpī. The name Kālāpriya applied to Kālpī can thus be traced to a date as late as the fifteenth century A.D.¹ At Kālpī, there still exists a temple of Kālāpriya. Kālpī must have formed a part of the Kanauj kingdom under Yaśovarman. The annual fair and festivities held in honour of Kālāpriyanātha were no doubt the most famous in the whole kingdom. It was, therefore, not at all unnatural that Bhavabhūti's dramas were staged on such occasions at Kālpī.