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324 On a Land- Grant of Mahendrapala Deva of Kanauj, FJSTo. 3 



of Marwar should cross the territories of the Kanauj kings in quest of 

 " the wealth of Gauda", which could not have been at any time so 

 great as that of Kanauj, notwithstanding the martial successes of 

 some of the Pala rajas of Bengal, who at one time extended their con- 

 quests as far as Benares. It is to be admitted that the name Vatsa has 

 been borne by several kings, and that according to Mallinatha and 

 Somadeva, a country, a town, and even a race of men have borne the 

 same title, but the inscription under notice distinctly alludes to a king 

 Vatsaraja who conquered Gauda and not to a " king Vatsa" (Vatsa 

 raja) — and it is evident that at the time when the said Vatsaraja 

 lived, the conquest of Gauda from the west could be possible only to a 

 Kanauj king, and therefore we may in this instance from the identity 

 of name assume the identity of person. If this assumption be admitted 

 Vatsaraja must have lived about the end of the eighth and the begin- 

 ning of the ninth century, at the usual average period of eighteen 

 years to a reign, from 796 to 814, his predecessor Devas'akti, the founder 

 of the dynasty, commencing his reign from 775-76. According to this 

 calculation the several princes will stand as follow : — 

 Devas'akti A. D. 775-776.* 

 Vatsaraja, son of D., 796. 

 Nagabhatta, son of V., 814. 

 Bamabhadra, son of N., 832. 

 Bhoja I., son of E., 850. 

 Mahendrapala, son of B., 868. 

 Bhoja II., son of M., 885. 



Vinayakapala, son of M., brother of B. II., 900. 

 This table, however, has to be adjusted with reference to the date of 

 the Stacy plate, which places an interval of, at the outside, only 19 

 years between Mahendrapala and Vinayaka. And if we provide for it 

 by reducing the reign of Bhoja II. to eight years, we shall bring him to 

 the middle of the eighth decade of the 9th century and make him 

 synchronous with the Bhoja of Gwalior, with whom he was most 

 probably identical. 



The Tomaras assumed the sovereignty of Kanauj about the end of 

 the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century, we have therefore a 

 gap of about 80 to 100 years to bridge over to complete the list of 



# In the quotation of this date in my paper on the Bhojas (ante XXXII. p. 

 96) % a misprint has converted the 776 into 779. 



