State · 855 – 1003

Utpala dynasty

A state of 855 – 1003 — 148 years in South Asia. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 148 years; 855 – 1003
Rulers: 3; the Regent of Kashmir
Most ground: 279,800 km²; in 1000

Map: Utpala dynasty in 1000, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Utpala dynasty in 1000, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 279,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Utpala dynasty in 886, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Utpala dynasty in 1000, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Avanti Varman	855 – 883	28 years	ending not on record
Sugandha	904 – 906	2 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Didda	958 – 980	22 years	ending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 855 – 980. Median reign 22 years. 1 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

149,700 km² in 895, 104,400 km² in 1003; at its largest 279,200 km² in 985. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood148 years
stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held279,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 64% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 148

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 840 – 1018, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1000, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1617123 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.