FROM BENARES. 461 



Yasovigraha, - - A. D. 1024 



Mahi Chandra, - 1048 



Chandra- deva, ------------ 1072 



Madanapala, 1096 



Govinda Chandra, - - 1120 



Vijaya Chandra, ----------- 1144 



Jaya Chandra, ------------ 1168 



The length thus assigned to these reigns averaging 24 years, is founded 

 on what appears to be the actual duration of the three last, although Jaya 

 Chandra met with a violent death. Thus amongst the present inscriptions, 

 is one recording a grant by Govinda Chandra which is dated in Sumbur, 

 1177, or A. D. 1121, the others are dated 57 years subsequent or A. D. 1178 

 giving that interval for the two reigns or 28 for each, whilst the reign of Jaya 

 Chandra himself was not terminated till 16 years later or 1192. Supposing 

 therefore the reign of Govinda Chandra to have commenced only one year 

 prior to the year of his grant, the total period of the three reigns is 72 years 

 or 24 each ; one of these also as observed being cut short by a casualty, it 

 is not extravagant to suppose that the preceding reigns averaged a similar 

 duration, and that the dynasty commences at the date assigned to it: a pe- 

 riod quite compatible with the rise of a new ruling power in that part of 

 India which appears to have been the scene of its subsequent ascendancy. 



There is nothing that furnishes any information relating to the country 

 over which the first named prince Yasovigraha ruled : the late Col. Wilford 

 speaking of Jaya Chanel designates him as a Rat/tore Rajput apparently on 

 the authority of a Hindi popular treatise, the Prithu Mai Cheritra. This 

 is in harmony with traditions current still in Rajputana which derive the 

 present Rajas of Jodhpur, who are of the Rath ore tribe from the last 

 princes of Kanoj : many of the leading feudatories or Thakurs of Oody- 

 pur and Jaypur are also Rathores. If we can suppose, winch is not im- 

 probable, that the country generally west of the Jumna and south of Aj- 



