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Sudarshan Kumar Sharma
Inscriptions do not mention this storyti, DrPathaka hag identified the Paramaras with Agniveśa Brahmanas bearing the gotra Vasistha 12 Hence
“Vasışthaih sma krtagmayo varagataih astyagoikundodbhavo, bhupalah Paramāra ityabhidhayā khyāto mabmandale''18 1 0
On the orb of the Earth there is well-known a king named Paramara' who was born from the sacrificial altar given to assume pride through hundreds of boons, by the Vasisthas- has been construed quite rationally by Dr. Pathaka
According to Dr Pratipala Bhatia also Paramaras were originally Vasistha Brabmanas who came to be regarded as Ksatriyas either on account of adopting Kşatra dharma or because their progenitor married a Ksatriya woman and so their descendants adopted their mothers' caste for all practical purposesiGautama N. Dwlved to takes Paramāras to be of northern origin and at first feudatories of the Gurjara Pratharas with whom they abared a common origin but their peculiar geographical position in Malwa led them to play a cautious opportunistic role, and to ally for some time with the stronger Rāştrakūtas The first important Paramāra bing of Malwa was Krşnarāja-Vakpati, possibly also known as Upendra who was a contemporary and later vaasal of Indra 11116The ruling familios of Mount Abu and Vagada were collateral branches of the Paramūras, while Vakpati II possibly established a new branch at Jalor According to Dr. R, S, Tripathi-The Paramaras were members of the Rastrakata race and they originally belonged to the Deccan, which once formed a home domipion of the Imperial Rāstrakūtas'17 He also considers Upendra or Krsnaraja as the founder of the Paramara dynasty and feels that his immediate successors must have been vassals of the Pratiharas or of the Rāştrakutas as they alternately gained ascendency in Malwa (Ancient Avantı] 8.
The Banswar 125C of Paramāra Bhojadeva [Vikram Samvat 1076=AD. 10191, Udaipar Prasasti of Jayasimha [V, S 1112=1055 A. D.) and the Udaipur Prasasti of the kings of Malwa (V S 1202=1145 A. D.) slightly differ in establishing the geneology of the Parmara kings as compared with the one given in the Tulakamanjaro, Prabandbacintamani20 and Navagabasanka caritam. 21
The Banswar inscription collecta Śrı Siyaka, Sri Vakptırajadeva, Sri Sindhursiadeva, and Sri Bhojadeva as the four kings out of the whole lot, while Udaipur Prasasti of Jay asimha picks op Śrl-Vakpatirājadeva, Sri Sindhudeva. gry Bhoja deva and Sri Jayasimhadeva without referring to Sindhudova or Sindhuraja beeing the younger or elder brother of Vakpatirājadeva. 22 The Udalpur Prasasti of the kings of Malwa, however, is more elaborate and details the geneology of the Paramaras as starting from Paramāra who was brought into
