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that tlie period elapsed is more likely to have been 792 years and 

 some months over, than the exact number of 792 years. For in- 

 stance, 792i years would place the death of Jay a Pala in A. IX 1021- 

 11-29, that is, on the 29th December, A. D. 1021 ; but as the exact 

 date of this event is not recorded by the Muhammadan historians, I 

 have thought it best to adhere to the date obtained from the complete 

 period of 792 years. 



30. I will now consider the claim which I have put forward on 

 the part of the Tomara dynasty as Eajas of Kanoj. We know that 

 after the conquest of Kanoj by Mahmud early in A. D. 1022, the 

 reigning family changed its residence to Bdri, which was three days' 

 journey distant, on the east side of the Granges. Mirkhond states that 

 it was situated at the confluence of three rivers, namely, the Saro, the 

 Kubin, and the Bahab. According to Eashiduddin, the three rivers 

 are the Bahet, the Gomati, and the Sarjw. The second of these 

 rivers is undoubtedly the Qumti, which in Sanskrit is the Gomati. 

 The first is either the Behta, or else the Bahria, which joins the 

 Behta, and the third is the Sarain, a good sized stream which passes 

 by Sitapur. Both the Behta and Sarain join the Grumti near Bdri, 

 which still exists as a good sized village. As Abu Eihan, who records 

 this change of capital, was actually resident in India at the time 

 when it took place, and as his work was written in A. D. 1031, we 

 have the most complete authentication of Mirkhond's date of this- 

 event. I presume that the change was made on account of the 

 exposed situation of Kanoj, which had so lately been twice captured, 

 first, in A. D. 1017 by Mahmud, and again in A. D. 1021 by the 

 Eaja of Kalcmjar and his allies. I conclude, therefore, Kunwar Pal, 

 or Kumdra Pal,, who was the successor of Jaypal, reigned at Bdri 

 from A. D. 1021 to 1051. 



31. About this very time also, as we learn from several inscrip- 

 tions, the kingdom of Kanoj was conquered by Chandra Deva, the 

 founder of the Eahtor dynasty of Kanoj. We possess no inscriptions 

 of Chandra Deva himself, but there is one, of his son r Madana Pala, 

 which is dated in S. 1154 or A. D, 1097 ; and another, of his grand- 

 son, Govinda Chandra, which is dated in S. 1177 or A. D. 1120 

 We know also from other inscriptions that Govinda's grandson 

 ascended the throne between A. D. 1172 and 1177, or say in A. D. 

 1175. With these dates before us, w£ may safely fix Govinda's 



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