Jayacandra

The king Jayachandra (12th century) is mentioned in the poem Prithviraja-raso by Chandbardai, in which his daughter, the princess Sanyogita, elopes with the Chauhan king Prithviraja. Jayachandra died in battle against the Ghūrid chief, Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām (Muḥammad of Ghūr), and his kingdom was annexed.

…he came into conflict with Jayachandra, the Gahadavala ruler of Kannauj. Jayachandra was eager to curb Prithviraja’s growing ambitions and quest for territorial expansion. Tradition, however, ascribes the immediate cause of their intense and bitter rivalry to a romance between Prithviraja and Jayachandra’s daughter, Sanyogita. The love of Prithviraja and…