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vardhana was the seat of government of Jayanta, a vassal chief of the kingdom of Gauda, when Jayāpida, king of Kāśmir, is said to have visited it in the eighth century A.D.; but Jayanta is not recognised as historical by present-day scholars. Paundrabhukti, a shortened form of Pundra-vardhana-bhukti, is referred to in the Rāmpāl copperplate of Sricandradeya, Belava copperplate of Bhojavarman, and Dhulla plate of Sricandra (for these records see Inscriptions of Bengal, Vol. III).
1 See Gauda chapter; Chronicles of the Kings of Kāsmīr, pp. 93-4.
