Maner is a large village located about 30 Kms west of Patna. Maner was once ‘the residence of a Brahman chief’, which was destroyed by the Muhammadans. That it was n important and a well-known place in the pre-Muhaammadan (pre 12th century CE)times is quite obvious from some references of it in the inscriptions of c. 11th-12th centuries CE.

1. A copper palte of the Gahadvala King Govinda-Chandra of Kanauj of 1126CE. (V.S. 1183) was found at Maner itself. It records that the King granted the villages Gunave and Padali in Maniaripattala to a Brahmin named Ganesvara-Sarman.

2. A copper plate of King Jayachandra, also of Kanauj dated 1175 CE (V.S. 1232) found near Benaras, likewise mentions ‘Ma(na)ra-pattala’.

3. A second inscription of the same king, Jayachadra again refers to ‘Maniari-patak’, i.e. a hamlet or village of the name Maniari, in Jaru (ttha)-pattala.

Till 1175 CE, Maner was part of the territory of the Gahadvalas of Kanauj.