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King Prälamba of Kamarupa (c. 800-825 A.D.) 1 is described in the Tezpur plates of his grandson as 'Pragjyotiṣeśa', i.e. 'ruler of Pragjyotisa'. His grandson Vanamala claims to belong to the line (anvaya) of the lords of Pragjyotiṣa, and so also does Balavarman, another king of the same dynasty (c. 975 A.D.). During the earlier half of the eleventh century A.D., the capital city of Pragjyotisa seems to have attained great eminence under the kingship of Ratnapala. In the Bargaon grant of this king, the city is referred to as impregnable, and rendered beautiful by the Lauhitya (= Brahmaputra river?).2
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The Kamauli grant of Vaidyadeva (c. 1100) refers to the Mandala of Kamarupa and the Visaya of Pragjyotisa, which implies that the latter was the larger administrative division, including Kamarūpa.
Rajyamati, a daughter of King Harşavarman Prägjyotiṣa (according to the stray plate of King Harjara), is described as Bhagadattarajakulajā,5 i.e. born of the family of King Bhagadatta.
1 J.A.S.B., 1840, IX, 2, pp. 766ff.
2 Ibid., 1898, LXVII, pp. 115-8.
3 Ep. Ind., XII, pp. 37ff.
4 I.H.Q., Dec. 1927, p. 841, f.n. 1.
5 Ind. Ant., 1880, IX, p. 179; J.R.A.S., 1898, pp. 384-5.
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