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598 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA because in A.D. 543-44, ten years after the Mandaśor inscription which mentions the Janendra Yaśodharman as victorious, the son (?) and viceroy of a Gupta paramabhattāraka mahārājādhirāja prithivipati, 'supreme sovereign, king of kings, lord of the earth,' and not any official of the Central Indian Janendra, was governing the Pundra-vardhana-bhukti, a province, which lay between the Indian interior and the Lauhitya.
