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Gurjara-Pratihāras in Bihar, a thread. Do keep reading.
#Bihar #Magadha #Gurjarapratihara ImageImage
Magadha/Bihar happened to be a Gurjara-Pratihāra stronghold under the reign of the Pratihara King Mahendrapala. We find inscriptions of Mahendrapala from early 10th an late 9th century AD scattered throughout the region.
From Dighwa Dubaulli(North Bihar) to Paharpur(Now West Bengal, erstwhile Magadha) Pratihāra inscriptions dedicated to Mahendrapala have been recovered.
Examining few important Magadha inscriptions of King Mahendrapala-
The Dighwa-Dubaulli copperplate inscription,
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#Kanishka I was, the greatest, and certainly the most famous, of the #Kushan kings.
He is known, from the combined testimony of the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources, to have ruled over an extensive dominion extending from Bihar in the east to #Khorasan
@atalbrave
in the west, and from #Khotan in the north to, perhaps, #Konkan in the south.
The dates and findspots of some of the inscriptions of #Kanishka I are interesting:
#Kosam inscription dated year 2,
#Sarnath inscription dated year 3,
#Mathur¹ inscription dated year 4,
#Suivihar inscription dated year 11, and
#Manikiala inscription dated year 18.
#AFG
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