Origin
According to Historians like Watson, A. M. T. Jackson, Campbell, Forbes, Kielhorn, DR Bhandarkar, the paramaras were a clan of the Gurjars. On the other hand DC Ganguly rejects to accept them Gurjaras as well as Agnikulas and opined that they were descendants of the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta. According to the Harsola copperplate of Siyaka, the Parmars were once feudatories of the Rashtrakutas, but became independent of their overlords at the end of the 10th century. Although the earlier tradition relates them with the Rashtrakutas, later tradition provides an interesting narrative regarding the origin of the name, Paramara. According to this tradition, the Kamadhenu (a cow which grants all wishes of one) of the sage Vasishtha was stolen by another sage Vishvamitra. Vasishtha therefore made an offering to the sacrificial fire at Mount Abu. A hero sprang out from the sacrificial fire and brought back the cow to the sage Vasishtha, who bestowed the name Paramara (slayer of the enemy) on him.
According to Kailash Chand Jain it is difficult to be definite about the origin of the Paramaras. But it is clear from both literary and epigraphical sources that they were connected to Mount Abu and followed the profession of arms. They may have taken advantage of the confusion caused by the struggle between the Pratiharas and Rashtrakutas and occupied Malwa. The knowledge of early Paramara rulers from Upendra to Vairisimha is scanty; there are no records, and they are known only from later sources. One thing is clear they were initially acting as governors of Malwa under Rashtrakuta suzerainty.
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