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record can be cited as evidence, it cannot be said, on the basis of the verses in the 

 Dan asagara and the Adbhutasagara, that Vallalasena came to the throne in 1159 a.d. 

 and wrote a book on Law ten years later. Only one inscription of this King has been 

 Inscription discovered up to date This is a copper-plate grant dis- 



covered in January, 1911, at Sitahati, near Katwa, in the 

 Burdwan District of Bengal. It records the grant of the village of Vallahitta in the 

 Uttara Radha Mandala of the Varddhamana bhukti to a Brahmana named Ovasudeva- 

 Sarmman as the Daksina of the Hema&va-Mahadana (the gift of a golden horse), per- 

 formed by the Queen Vilasadevi, the King's mother, on the 16th Vaisakha in the nth 

 year of his reign. 1 The Dutaka of this grant was the King's minister of peace and 

 war, Hari-ghosa, who is the only officer of Vallalasena whose name has come down to 

 us. Vallalasena married Ramadevi of the Calukya family and was succeeded by his 

 son Laksmanasena. As the initial year of the Laksmanasena era is 1119-20 a.d., 

 so Laksmanasena must have ascended the throne in that year, consequently, Vallala- 

 sena cannot be taken to have reigned more than 12 or 13 years. He seems to have 

 been a peaceably inclined, weak, old man, studious in his habits, and a patron of 

 Brahmanism. Both he and his father seem to have belonged to the Saiva sect, as 

 their inscriptions begin with an invocation to Siva. 



Step by step, the Gahadavala Kings of Kanauj advanced towards the Bast. 



Govindacandra seems to have conquered the whole of Maga- 

 Gaha4avak Conquest dha {n ^ earHer part of hig rdgn (m4 = ^ A D } Jn 112? 



he was in a position to grant a village in the Patna Dis- 

 trict to a Brahmana. An unpublished grant, a photograph of which has been kindly 

 lent to me by Prof. Jadunath Sircar, M.A., of the Patna College, records the dona- 

 tion of the village of Padoli, together with the village of Gunave in the Maniari Pattala, 

 to a Brahmana of the Kasyapa Gotra named Ganesvara-Sarman, after bathing in the 



Ganges at Kanyakubja, on Sunday, the nth of the dark 

 ^^^.l^* 1 ^ half of Jyaistha of the Vikrama year 1183 = 1127 a.d. I 



have been given to understand by Prof. Sircar that this new 

 inscription will shortly be published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 

 The invasion of Magadha by the Gahadavala King seems to have led to hostilities 

 between Govindacandra and Laksmanasena. In the Madanapada Grant of Visvaru- 

 pasena and Edilpur Grant of Kesavasena, Laksmanasena is said to have erected 

 pillars of victory at Benares (Varanasi) and at Allahabad (Trivem). 



Belayam daksinavdher-mmus'ala-dhara gaddpdni samvasavedyam Tirotsange triven- 



ydh kamalabhava-makhdrambha nirvvyajapute yen-occair-yajna-yupaih saha 



samara-] ay astambhamdla nyadhayi. v.' 2 

 The Maniari Pattala mentioned in the copper-plate grant of Govindacandra men- 

 tioned above has been identified with the modern Muner, a village of considerable 

 importance in the Patna District, which was a well-known place in the 12th century. 

 Bakhtiyar Khilji directed some of his expeditions against this town before the 



1 Vaiigiya Sahitya Parisat Patrika, Vol XVII, Pt IV, pp. 237-38. 



2 J.A.S.B., Vol. VII, p. 43. and Vol. 1896, Pt. I, p. 9. 



