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{{about|the Emperor of [[Gurajar-Pratihara]] dynasty|the emperor of the Pala Empire|Mahipala}}
{{short description|Indian monarch}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox royalty
| succession = 9th [[Gurjara-Pratihara]] king
| reign = {{circa|913|944}}
| predecessor = [[Bhoja II (Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty)|Bhoja II]]
| successor = [[Mahendrapala II]]
}}
'''Mahipala I''' (913–944) ascended the throne of [[Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty]] after his step brother [[Bhoja II (Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty)|Bhoja II]].<ref>{{cite book
| title =History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A. D.
| author = Radhey Shyam Chaurasia
| publisher =Atlantic Publishers & Distributors
| year =2002
| page =208
| ISBN = 978-81-269-0027-5
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=cWmsQQ2smXIC&pg=PA208&dq}}</ref> He was a son of Queen Mahidevi.<ref>Asni inscription</ref> Mahipala I was also known by the names: ''Ksitipala'', ''Vinayakapala'', ''Herambapala'' and ''Uttarapatha Swami''.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA259&dq|page=259}}</ref>

==Reign==
It seems that [[Indra III]]'s campaign did not influence [[Kannauj]] much and Mahipala I soon revived [[Kannauj]] as court poet [[Rajashekhara (Sanskrit poet)|Rajasekhara]] calls him ''Maharajadhiraja of [[Aryavarta]]''. According to ''Kavyamimansa''<ref>Kavyamimansa of Rajasekhara, ch. XVII, P. 94</ref> of Rajasekhara, Mahipala's reign extended from the upper course of the [[Beas River|river Bias]] in the north-west to [[Kalinga (historical region)|Kalinga]] or [[Orissa, India|Orissa]] in the south-east, and from the [[Himalaya]]s to the [[Kerala]] or [[Chera dynasty|Chera]] country in the far south.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA262&dq|pages=262–264}}</ref>

That Mahipala occupied territories up to ''[[Narbada]]'' is evident from Partabgarh inscription, which provides information about his son Mahendrapala II ruling at [[Ujjain]] in 946. R. S. Tripathi asserts that as Mahendrapala II is not credited with any achievements so Mahipala I must be the king who recovered [[Ujjain]].<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA264&dq|page=264}}</ref>

The closing days of Mahipala's reign were disturbed by attacks by the [[Rashtrakuta Dynasty|Rashtrakutas]] on northern [[India]] as the Deoli and Karhad plates of Krisna III, while praising his achievement in the style of an inflated panegyric, inform that ''by hearing conquest of southern regions, the hope about Kalanjara and Citrakuta vanished from the heart of the [[Gurjara]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA267&dq|page=267}}</ref>

[[Arab]] chronicler [[Al-Masudi]] describes Mahipala I as follows:<blockquote>"The ruler has four armies according to the four quarters of the wind. Each of these number 700,000 or 900,000 men. He has large armies in the garrisons in the north and in the south; in the east and in the west, for he is surrounded on all sides by warlike rulers."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA268&dq|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|pages=268–269|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi}}</ref></blockquote>Mahipala I, whom Kannada poet [[Adikavi Pampa|Pampa]] expressly calls "Gurjararaja",<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA222&dq|page=222}}</ref> carried forward the work of his ancestors.

Dharanivaraha, a Chapa or [[Chavda dynasty|Chavda]] ruler ruling at Vardhamana (now [[Wadhwan]] in [[Saurashtra (region)|Surashtra]] region of Gujarat) was a feudatory of Mahipala, which is mentioned in his grant dated 914.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Kanauj: To the Moslem Conquest|author=Rama Shankar Tripathi|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ|year=1989|ISBN=978-81-208-0404-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Tnh2QjGhMQC&pg=PA267&dq|page=266}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31980|title=Appendix To Epigraphia Indica And Record Of The Archaeological Survey of India|last=Bhandarkar|first=D. R.|publisher=Archaeological Survey of India|year=1929|volume=19 - 23|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31980/page/n399 385]}}</ref>

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|title = [[Pratihara|Gurjara Pratihara Emperor]]
|years = 913 - 944
|before =[[Bhoja II (Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty)|Bhoja II]] (910-913)
|after = [[Mahendrapala II]] (944-948)
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