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Vestiges of the Kings of Gwalior. 
S'urya uninterruptedly held the stronghold and the territory around 
it for several centuries, until at last a daring prince, in the person of 
the 85th descendant, Tejakarna, neglected the surname and lost the 
principality to the Pauvars of Amber. How far this fable is worthy 
of credit, it is scarcely worth while to enquire; never in the history 
of Indian principalities within the last two thousand years, has there 
been an instance of uninterrupted succession of 85 potentates of one 
race all enjoying the same patronymic ; while certain it is that 
during the period which would belong to the Palas, there were several 
kings of the Pramara and other races who exercised the powers of 
either immediate rulers or suzerains, over Gwalior. This fact would 
argue very strongly against the authenticity of Tieffenthaler’s list; 
nevertheless we think it possible that a small principality with limit¬ 
ed powers, sometimes independent and sometimes in vassalage, might 
exist for a long series of years in the same family. At any rate it 
will not be too much to assume, on the strength of the tradition 
which has borne paternity to the list, that the Kushites were the 
founders of Gwalior and that they did long exercise sovereignty 
within its precincts. No monument, however, has yet been found 
which records the name of any of the Palas, as an immediate ruler 
of that place. 
The earliest name that has been found in any inscription in con¬ 
nexion with Gwalior is that of Toramana, and next that of Paslm- 
pati his son. But both are put down for suzerains and not immediate 
rulers, and this is most probable as we find their names in connexion 
with Malwa, Guzerat and Kashmir, where the Palas have had no 
control. The record which bears their name exists on a Vaislmavite 
temple* in the fortress of Gwalior and is marked No. 1 (Plate 1. 
fig. 1) in Colonel Cunningham’s collection. 
A translation of it has already been published in this Journal 
along with a conjecture of mine on the identity of the sovereigns 
named in it with two of the Gonerdya Kings of Kashmir.* How 
* Professor Fitz-Edward Hall, 1V1. A., D. C. L., Inspector of Schools, Sagore 
Division, North-Western Provinces, lias honored me with a patronising tap on 
the shoulders lor this paper (Ante Vol. XXX. p. 383). He hails it “ as an en¬ 
couraging sign, that the natives ot this country are beginning, here and there, to 
evince an intelligent interest in the history ot their forefathers,” although the 
paper is not the first ol my contributions to the pages of this Journal. As in 
1847, I had for some months had the honor of giving the learned Doctor lessons 
in Bengali, I feel very thankful to him for the kindness with which lie notices me 
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