Political History of Northern India

Author(s): Gulabchandra Chaudhary
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar

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THE DYNASTIES OF MADHYADESA
bolts, staying neither to eat, nor to rest, nor pick himself up; while Narasimha pursuing bathed his horses at the junction of the Ganga." The above reference is made in connection with an expedition against Kanauj carried on by the Kastrakūta Indra III, probably having been accompanied by his feudatory chief Narasimha Calukya. As the year of Indra III's coronation is specified 915 A.D. in the Nausări grant and his successor is known from the Dandapur (Dharwad district) inscription to have been ruling in 918," we may infer that this struggle referred to above must have taken place sometime between the years 916 and 917 A.D. Besides this, we know from the Asni inscription that Mahipala was ruling in V.E. 974 or 917 A.D. From the Balabharata of the celebrated poet Räjasekhara, it appears that Mahipala must have been a strong ruler among the later Pratihāras.*
Vinayakapāla was the other name of Mahipala: The name of Vinayakapala occurs in the colophon of the Brhat Kathakola of the Jain poet Harisena. He states that "in the prosperous reign of 'Vinayadikapala' he wrote this Kosa in Vikrama Era 989 or Saka 853, the year being Khara which is twentyfourth in enumeration." The poet Marişena was living near about Wadhwan and his calculation is according to the northern cycle. It appears that the book was finished sometime between fifteenth October 931 and thirteenth March, 932 A.D.
Who was this king and whom did he succeed? There are several inscriptions which give his dates. According to the plates of the Bengal Asiatic Society he was ruling in 931 A.D." The Räkhetra stone inscription discovered in the village of that name near Canderi in Gwalior says that Vinayakapäla constructed certain water-works at an immense cost in the year V.E. 999-1000 or 94243 A.D. In an inscription from Partapgarh in southern Rajasthäna, dated
1 Ed. Lewis Rice (Bangalore, 1898), pp. 3. 4: Karnataka Sabdanusäsana, p. 26: JRAS., N.S. XIV, (1882) p. 20,
* Fleet, Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, p. 415.
3 Ibid., p. 417.
4 See T, 7. Carl Cappeller's edition (1885), p. 2.
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* Vs. It-13 of Colophon (SJGM.): Thông ting By are,
विक्रमादित्यकालस्य परिणाममिदं स्फुटम् । शतेष्टकेषु विस्पष्टं पञ्चशत्यधिकेषु च शककालस्य सत्यस्य परिणाममिदं भवे । संवत्सरे चतुर्विंशे वर्तमाने खराधिपे, विनयादिकपालस्य राज्ये शक्रोपमानके ।
6 IA., XV, p. 140.
7 Ann, Re. ASI., 1924-25,