Yashovarman (IAST: Yaśovarman; reigned c. 1133–1142 CE) was an Indian king from the Paramara dynasty, who ruled in the Malwa region of central India.
[1] By 1134, the Chandela king Madanavarman had seized the eastern parts of the Paramara kingdom, along the Betwa River, as attested by his Augasi grant inscription.
[2] Multiple sources, including chronicles and inscriptions, prove that Yashovarman was defeated by Jayasimha, the Chaulukya king of Gujarat.
[4] According to the contemporary Chaulukya courtier Hemachandra, Jayasimha invaded the Paramara kingdom because he wanted to visit the holy city of Ujjain.
[7] The 1139 CE Dahod inscription states that Jayasimha imprisoned the king of Malava (the Paramara territory),[2] an assertion supported by Hemachandra.
If this date is correct, and if the ruler mentioned in the inscription is same as the Paramara king (an assertion doubted by some historians), it appears that he ruled until the early 1140s, possibly as a Chaulukya vassal.