Saran was probably a part of the kingdom of Gajipur in that period. The earliest authentic historical fact or record concerning this district may perhaps be related to 898 A.D. which suggest that the village of Dighwa-Dubauli in Saran had supplied a copper plate issued in the reign of king Mahendra Paldeva. It records the grant of land in Sravasti Bhukti there by suggesting that the Guryara Pratihara empire extended upto Gandak, if not further east, on the northern banks of the Ganges. It follows, therefore, that Saran in the ninth century of the Christian era was a part of Sravasti Bhyukti, just as it is now part of Saran Division.