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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA 1114-55 A.D.) is known to have granted land in the Pāṭnā District in 1124 A.D. and to have been staying at Monghyr in 1146 A.D.[1] His later contemporary, the Pāla king Madanapāla (circa 1144-61 A.D.), is similarly known to have held sway over the Pāṭṇā District in his third regnal year (circa 1146 A.D.) and the Monghyr District in his fourteenth (circa 1157 A.D.) and eighteenth (circa 1161 A.D.) regnal years.[2] Madanapāla’s successor Gōvindapāla (circa 1161-65 A.D.) is known to have held sway over the Pāṭṇā-Gayā region in his fourth regnal year (circa 1164 A.D.) but he was ousted from that area by the Gāhaḍavālas sometime before 1175 A.D.[3] The fact that a Pāla king named Palapāla (circa 1165-1200 A.D.), probably the successor of Gōvindapāla, was ruling over the Monghyr District in the thirtyfifth year of his reign would suggest that Gōvindapāla died about 1165 A.D. when the western part of South Bihār passed to the Gāhaḍavāla king Vijayachandra (circa 1155-70 A.D.) and that his successor Palapāla continued to rule over parts of East Bihār till the end of the twelfth century when that region was conquered by the Turkish Musalmans.[4] We have now to accommodate Ballālasēna’s hold over the Bhāgalpur region about 1166 A.D. As this date roughly coincides with that of the overthrow of Gōvindapāla by the Gāhaḍavālas, it is possible to think that the Gāhaḍavālas and Sēnas led a joint attack on the Pālas and advanced against South Bihār simultaneously from the west and east. Palapāla, however, may have succeeded in recovering East Bihār from the Sēnas although West Bihār appears to have continued to remain in the ha nds of the Gāhaḍavālas. TEXT[5] Siddham[6] pramēsara-ity-ādi-[7]śrī-Valalaśēṇa[8]-samata[9] 9 || tāmvara-khōli[10] data[11] ||[12] bhaṭṭāraka- śrī-Damachāditadēvapadānā[13] ||[12] maṭha-pati Chihōkasya[14] [||*].
TRANSLATION May there be success ! (In) the year 9 of (the reign of) the illustrious Valalaśēṇa (Ballālasēna) who is endowed with (the imperial titles) beginning with Pramēsara (Paramēśvara), a copper cover belonging to (i.e., caused to be made by) Chihōka, chief priest of the temple, is granted in favour of the illustrious lord Damachāditya. B. Lai Inscription of Vikramadēvī ; Year 32 During my tour in the Monghyr District, I came to know of the recent discovery of some inscribed images at Lai lying about six miles from Kājrā and about ten miles from Lakkhīsarāi, _________________________________________________
[1] Cf. JASL, Vol. XVIII, p. 81 ; above, Vol. VII, p. 98.
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