1862.] 
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Vestiges of the Kings of Gwalior. 
tector of Kaesthas. His reign lasted for only a few years and he 
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was succeeded by his son Madhusudana. The date of Madliusudana’s 
accession is not known, but on the 6th of the waxing moon of 
Magha, in the year of Vikramarka 1161 = A. C. 1104, i. e. within 
twelve years after the erection of Mahipala’s Jain temple, he dedicated 
a temple to Mahadeva and repaired a great number of the Hindu 
sacred edifices of Gwalior. His name and that of his father occur 
on a large tablet upwards of 6 feet in length on the Mahadeva temple. 
The record is, like the preceding, inscribed in characters intermediate 
between the Ivutila and the modern Devanagri. Owing to the loss 
of a portion from the left of the record, it is difficult to make out the 
context of the whole. (Appendix No. 8.) 
We have no monumental record of the successors of Madhusudana for 
near a century. According to Tieffenthaler, Shamsuddin, king of 
Delhi, wrested Gwalior from the Puars and made it over to the 
Tannvariens , a family of Rajputs who held it as governors for ten 
generations, # to the time of Humayun. But this is opposed to the 
statement of Ferishta who says that Kuttabuddin took the fortress 
in 1193 A. C. Whether the deposed king was a Kachchhapaghata 
of Madhusudana’s line, it is difficult to ascertain; for we find 
on Kuttab’s death a Tomara prince defying his son Aram and 
subsequently acknowledging fealty to his brother-in-law Altemish 
in 1232 A. C. One of the Tomara’s built the celebrated fortress of 
Tomaragarh or Taragarh, and others of the race distinguished them¬ 
selves as valiant and able chieftains. They were probably the same 
with the Tannvariens of Tieffenthaler, but their names do not cor¬ 
respond with the roll of the learned Missionary. The oldest monu¬ 
mental names of the Tomaras are those of Sankarendra Deva and Naga 
Sinha. They occur in three short records from the Teli Mandir of 
Gwalior, which, though undated, we judge from the style of writing to 
belong to the end of the 13th century. The first name occurs twice 
(Plate II. figs. 11 and 13), and in both places is mis-spelt, and the 
second is twice written in the same inscription. (Fig. 12.) The 
names appear without the usual regal titles. 
* The names are I. Parmaldew; II. Adharandew brother of I. (5 years) ; III. 
Biramdew son of I. (15 years) ; IV. Alhandew (15 years) ; V. Barsingdew (75 
years) ; YI. Doungar Sen, (30 years) ; VII. Kirath Sing son of YI. (25 years) ; 
VIII. Kalian Sing son of VII. (28 years) ; IX. Man, (50 years) ; X. Bikarmalischit 
(Vikramaditya F) son of X. The reigns in some cases appear too long, but for 
vassals they are not altogether improbable. 
