An inscription dated 10 August 1175 CE (1232 VS) records a grant made on the occasion of the jatakarman (childbirth) ceremony of Harishchandra.
Another inscription dated 10 August 1175 CE records a second grant made to celebrate the namakarana (naming) ceremony of Harishchandra.
However, in an inscription found at Kotwa (near Machhali Shahar), he assumes the traditional sovereign titles: Parama-bhattaraka Maharajadhiraja Parameshvara, Ashva-pati Nara-pati Gaja-pati Rajatrayadhipati, and Vividha-vidya-vichara-vachaspati.
Firishta was the earliest writer to claim that the Muslims captured Kannauj in the 1190s, but his account can be ignored as inaccurate because he flourished several decades later, in the 16th century.
[5] An inscription dated 29 April 1197 CE, found at Belkhara in Mirzapur district, mentions that it was issued under the rule of a feudatory (ranaka) named Vijayakarna.
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).