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Rajendralala Mitra —Two Copper-plate Inscriptions. [No. 4, 
Grant of Maliendrapala Dcva of Kanauj,” # probably the last who was the 
same with the “ Lord Paramount” named in the Gwaliar inscription trans¬ 
lated by me and included in my paper on the “ Vestiges of the Kings of 
Gwalior,”f and noticed also in my essay on the “ Bhoja Raja of Dhar and 
his Homonyms.”^ The date of the last Bhoja of Ivanauj was 885, A. D.,§ 
and that of the Bhoja of Gwaliar 875, A P.,|| showing an interval of only 
ten years which may reasonably be supposed to have been included in a sin¬ 
gle reign. This identification would make the dynasty of Gahadavala to be 
the same with that of Devasakti, which, according to my calculation, com¬ 
menced in the year 779, A. D.^f 
When Karlla, the last prince of the dynasty, died, cannot be ascertained ; 
but it must have been at about the third quarter of the eleventh century. 
The inscription notices a revolution immediately after his death ; perhaps he 
was destroyed by a rising of bis own people, who expelled his descendants 
from Ivanauj and made over the kingdom to Chandradeva, or at least helped 
him to take it. 
The dynasty of the last named prince was founded by Yasovigraba, 
whose name occurs in a large number of inscriptions ; his date, however, 
is nowhere satisfactorily settled. ## His son Mahichandra was the father of 
Chandradeva. No inscription of either of these has yet been met with. Of 
Madanapala, the son and successor of Chandradeva, an inscription has been 
published, bearing date the 3rd of the waxing moon in the month of Magha, 
Samvat 1154 — 1097 A. D.ff According to the inscription under notice 
he was the reigning sovereign in 1103, A. D., when his son Govindachandra, 
as heir apparent, gave away the village of Basahi. 
The second inscription describes the dynasty of Yasovigralia, but makes 
no mention of the line of kings which preceded it. According to it Govinda¬ 
chandra was reigning sovereign or Maharaja on the 3rd of the wane in 
the month of Phalguna, in the Samvat era 1174 = A. D. 1117. So he must 
have succeeded his father between 1103 and 1117 A. D. On the 6th of the 
wane in the month of Magha, Samvat 1182 = A. D. 1125, he gave away a 
village in the canton of HaladoyaJJ and his reign may be assumed to have 
* Ante XXXIII, p. 321. 
f Ante XXXI, p. 391. 
X Ante XXXII, p. 91. 
§ Ante XXXI, p. 409. 
|| Ante XXXIII, p. 96. 
Ante XXXII, p. 409. 
** A summary of all the Yasovigrahas noticed in inscriptions will be found in a 
footnote to a paper entitled “ Of two Edicts bestowing land recorded on plates of 
copper.” Ante XXVII, p. 217- 
tt Ante XXVII, p. 218. 
Xt Ante XXVII, p. 247. 
