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Kavyanusasana the third day Mülarāja personally went into the thick of the battle on his elephant with two quivers filled with missiles. Grāharipu in a frenzy of rage mounted the elephant of Mūlarāja. In the combat Mülarāja succeeded in throwing Grāharipu down from his elephant. Mūlarāja then jumped from the elephant and tied Gräharipu with ropes and thus made a prisoner of him. (IV 100 - 103 ).
Then Laksha of Kachchha dressed in white rushed towards Mülarāja and insulted him by abusing and calling him Müla. In a deadly combat Mülarāja pierced Laksha with his spear and killed him there and then.x
Queens of Grāharipu with their children come to Mülarāja and request him to release their husband which Mūlaraja does. From there, Mūlarāja goes to Somanātha and worships the god Somanātha. According to the commentator, it was Şivaratri (V. 139) when he recited his prayers.
Mūlarāja returned to his capital with one hundred and eight elephants within five or six days.
The cause of war with Dvárapa of Lata is given as the insult Dvärapa offered to Mūlarāja by sending reference to the sons of Bīja and Dandaka in the Dvyasraya. Bīja is not even mentioned. The verse in which the name of Dadhakka occurs is 99 Canto Ill. It rather means 'who did not serve Da hakka's brother's son by following him?' The ineaning is - everybody followed Mülarāja who was the son of Raji brother of Dadhakka.
X In spile of its uncouth grammatical language, it must be confessed, Hemachandra has described thc fight with great vigour. In fact, we may remark in passing, that the Duyaşraya has considerable poetic inerit of vigour and graphic description which is however hidden under its forbidding grammatical garb.
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