770 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1911.] 
dynasty was unknown to the Caranas of Rajputana. ‘‘ The 
son of Jaya Chandra is called Set-Ram by Tod, Sita-Ram by 
Mukji, and Sweta Raya by Dr. Hall’s informant. All these 
various readings are clearly intended for the same name, but 
they differ utterly from the name which has been handed 
year A.D. 1268=1211. Cunningham places it in 1283 according 
to Mukji’s books which he had himself examined and quotes a 
verse which he heard from the Bard’s sons.” 
An attempt to fix the boundaries of the Gahadavala king- 
dom would probably meet with some success at the present 
this fort after the sack of Kanauj and the flight of Jaipal or 
Rajyapala.* In the west Badaun the ancient Vodamayuta 
Sam, and in the list of his victories it is entered as a holy-war 
(Jihad).*+ Altamsh was the feudatory of Budaun when he was 
list of Altamsh’s victories. The only probable meaning seems 
to be that Budaun and the surrounding country formed a sort 
of buffer between the Gahadavala kingdom and the Muham- 
madan Empi . 
over-run,’ and probably the modern districts of Jaunpur, 
Gorakhpur and Gonda were the last remnants of the empire 
of the Gahadavalas. 
1 Cunningh { i 
+ taee gham, Arch. Surv. Rep., vol. xi, p. 123. 
3 Elliot, vol. ii, p. 46—Tarikh-Yamini 
4 Tabag&t-i-Nasiri (Bib. Ind. 471 and 491 
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