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Martanda (an aspect of the Sun-God or Surya), Gahadavala dynasty, Rajasthan, 12th century CE. The sudden rise of the Gahadavalas has led to speculation that they descended from an earlier royal house. Rudolf Hoernlé once proposed that the Gahadavalas were an offshoot of the Pala dynasty of Gauda, but this theory has been totally rejected now. [9]
1114–1155 CE) was the King of Kannauj from 1114 to 1155 and was a member of the Gahadavala dynasty. Govindachandra was the most powerful ruler of his dynasty. As a prince, he achieved military successes against the Ghaznavids and the Palas. As a sovereign, he defeated the Kalachuris of Tripuri, and annexed some of their territories.
Jayachandra was a son of the Gahadavala king Vijayachandra.According to a Kamauli inscription, he was crowned king on 21 June 1170 CE. [2] Jayachandra inherited his grandfather Govindachandra's royal titles: [2] Ashva-pati Nara-pati Gaja-pati Rajatrayadhipati ("leader of three forces: the cavalry, the infantry and the elephant corps" [3]) and Vividha-vidya-vichara-vachaspati ("patron of ...
Subsequently, the Ghaznavids appear to have launched another attack on the Gahadavala kingdom, which was not successful. Kṛtya-Kalpataru, written by the Gahadavala courtier Lakshmidhara, states that Govindachandra killed the Hammira. [7] This incident may have happened during the reign of Madanapala, or early in the reign of Govindachandra. [8]
Although the Gahadavala inscriptions mention two of his ancestors, he was the first sovereign monarch of his family. Amid the chaos resulting from the decline of Kalachuri power and Ghaznavid conquests of the region, Chandradeva established a government in the Kanyakubja-Varanasi region of the Gangetic plains.
The Gahadavala inscriptions praise Vijayachandra using vague, conventional terms. [9] According to them, the king swept away the world's suffering with tears from the eyes of Hammira's wife. "Hammira" (the Sanskritized form of Amir ) refers to a Muslim general, possibly a subordinate of a Ghaznavid ruler.
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A 1237 inscription issued during the reign of one Adakkamalla of Gahadavala family was found in Nagod State (present-day Satna district of Madhya Pradesh). It is possible that Adakkamalla was the successor of Harishchandra. [7] Another possibility is that Adakkamalla was from a different branch of the dynasty.