Political History of Northern India

SR No.: 001744
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gulabchandra Chaudhary
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 482
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Culture
File Size: 10 MB

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I. THE CANDELLAS.
The origin of the Candellas is recorded neither in the Jain works nor in other works known to us. It appears from traditions and epigraphic evidences that the first few princes of the dynasty were feudatories of the great Pratihära emperors of Kanyakubja. Most of the inscriptions of the early kings of the dynasty found at Khajuraho denote that their original home was Kharjūrvāha and its surrounding area.
Yalovarman 1: As regards the individual kings of the dynasty the earliest mentioned in the Jain sources is Yašovarma. He is called in the Puratana Prabandha-sangraha as the king Kalyāṇa-kataka.' I have shown elsewhere that Kalyāpa-kataka of the prabandha writers is most probably Kaliñjar, the capital of the Candella kings." If the assumption is right, this Yašovarman mentioned in the above work must have been one of the two Yaŝovarmans of the dynasty. It is said about him that he kept tied the bell of Justice (Nyayaghanța) in the door of his palace. Law and Justice to him was above all things." Once the family deity thought of testing him on this point, and he proved his love of Justice by sacrificing his son.
CHAPTER V
THE DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA.
This Yašovarman, who must have been the famous father of the great king Dhañga, considerably extended the boundaries of the Candella kingdom and acquired a fame which found a place in the records of his son. The prabandha writers have done their duty in preserving the anecdotes of his fame in their works. He may not be the Yašovarman II, son of Madanavarman, who died before his father.
We have fortunately several Jain inscriptions of the Candella kings which help us considerably in fixing their chronology.
Dhanga: The next king who appears in the Jain inscription discovered from Khajuraho is Dhaiga, son of Yašovarman I. This inscription is
कल्याण कटकेपुरे यशोवर्मनृपतिस्तेन धवलगृहहारे न्यायपटा
1 SJGM., II, pp. 107-08:
बद्धा ।
See infra, Chap. on the Caulukyas.
3 Ibid., मम न्याय एव महान् । EI., I, pp 135-36.
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