Public Administration in Ancient India c9.39

c9.39

² The Bhagalpur grant of Nārāyana-Pāla asserts that the second Pāla King, Dharma-Pāla, acquired the sovereignty of Mahodaya (Kanauj) by conquering Indrarāja and others, but bestowed it on Chakrāyudha, the monarch who had been deposed by Krishnarāja, the Rāṣṭrakūṭa King. The same event is referred to in the Khalimpur charter of Dharma-Pāla himself, which says: “With a sign of his eyebrows gracefully moved, he made over to the illustrious King of Kanyakubja his own golden water-pitcher of coronation, lifted up by the delighted elders of Pānchāla, and acquiesced in by the Bhoja, Matsya, Madra, Kuru, Yadu, Yavana, Avantī, Gandhāra and Kirāta Kings, bent down while bowing with their heads trembling.” Quoted by D. R. Bhandakar in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VII. p. 27. Another Pāla King claims to have exterminated the Hūnas and to have extended his sway over the whole of Northern India.