Bhīnmāl
Bhīnmāl, the Śrīmāla of Sanskrit sources, was an old and important town — the seventh-century astronomer Brahmagupta worked there, and it was a Gurjara-Pratihāra centre before the family took its name from Kannauj. A Paramāra branch held it and nearby Jālor from about the tenth century, subordinate for most of that time to the Chaulukyas of Gujarat.
The branch is known from a small number of inscriptions and was displaced from Jālor by the Chāhamānas in the twelfth century and from Bhīnmāl not long after. It is included here for completeness: the Paramāra name spread across at least four branches in western India, and the pattern of a great house shedding subordinate lines is one of the structural features of the period.
Further reading
- Hawley, John Stratton. A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Harvard University Press, 2015
- Nilakanta Sastri, K. A. The Colas. University of Madras, 1955
- Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India. Oxford University Press, 1955
- Basham, A. L. The Wonder That Was India. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954
- Kulke, Hermann. A History of India. Routledge, 2004
See also
This entry was last revised on 1 August 2026.