1862.] 
401 
Vestiges of the Kings of Gwalior. 
of that place are known to have been Kaclivahas. I have no faith 
in the number 85, nor in the periods assigned to the different sove¬ 
reigns in the list of Tieffen thaler, hut it would not be too much 
to suppose that a long line of the Kushites did reign in Gwalior, and 
that our Kachchhapaghata was a conqueror of one of those Kach- 
vahas, from which circumstance he assumed his distinctive name. 
A descendant of this Kachchhapaghata was Lak'shmana. According 
to the panygerist of his race, he was a great king who rivalled the re¬ 
nowned Prithu of the Vedas by his extensive conquests ; but they do 
not seem to have extended as far as Gwalior, for we read that his son 
Vajra -dama was “ the first who proclaimed his valour and his hero¬ 
ism by striking his kettledrum in the fortress of Gopagiri.” This 
must have taken place a few years before 977 A. C. as we find him 
in that year well established in his conquered country and dedicating 
the Jain figure from which inscription No. 6 has been taken. Tradition 
has it that the Kaclivahas were expelled from Gwalior by the Puars 
or Puriharas, and as we find Vajra-dama the descendant of a de¬ 
stroyer of Kaclivahas, the first who overcomes the old dynasty of 
the place, it will not be unreasonable to infer that he was a scion of the 
Puar race. Tieffenthaler supports the tradition regarding the aggres¬ 
sion of the Puars, or Panuvars as he calls them, but his list of 
names does not correspond with that furnished by the inscriptions. 
According to his authority, the conquerors of the last Kushite 
Tejakarna was Ramdew who was after a reign of J9 years successively 
followed by Birmdew (7), Makherdew (13), Rettendew (11), Lavnak- 
dew(i5), Barsingdew (17), and Parmaldew (21); the seven taking 
up altogether a period of 103 years. It is scarcely necessary to add 
that these names are of little value against the positive testimony of 
the inscriptions under notice. 
Vajra-dama, according to our inscription, before entering into 
Gwalior, had subdued the king of Vindhyanagara. His son Man- 
gala Raja, forsaking the Jainism of his father, offered his adora¬ 
tions to Vishnu, but he seems never to have achieved any po¬ 
litical greatness. His successor Kfrtiraja, a prince of a warlike dis¬ 
position, signalised himself in many a battle against his neighbours. 
Malwa was reduced by him to the rank of an appenage of Gwalior. 
In religion he was a Sivaite, and a temple to the Lord of Parvatf in 
the town of Sinhapaniya still stands to attest the ardency of his 
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