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CXXXII
Kavyanusasana
and came back to Anahillapura. The king was deeply touched with this sad incident and retired to the holy place of Suklatīrtha on the bank of the Narmada, after giving the crown to his second son Durlabharāja. (C. VII verses 1-58.
The commentator Abhayatilakagani while commenting on the verse 31 of the C. VII narrates a different tale. Chamuṇḍarāja became sexually very loose, so his sister Vāchiṇīdevī managed to remove him from the throne and give it to Vallabharāja. Chamuṇḍarāja, smarting under this disgrace, proceeded to Benares, but was attacked in Malava and robbed of his umbrella and other royal insignia. He returned to Aṇahillapura and asked his son Vallabha to march against Mālava. The commentator says As such an incident would not be worthy of the person described, the incident is merely suggested by saying that he took the permission of his father' (p. 531). There may be some grain of reality in this story and if we read it in connection with the fact that his queens always mis-carried we are tempted to guess that Chamunda may have suffered from some foul sexual disease.
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The P. C., however, refers this incident of being robbed of royal insignia to Durlabharaja. It was Munja of Malava who perpetrated this insult. Merutunga says From that time onward hereditary enmity was formed between kings of Mālava and Gujarata. According to the A.ms of the P. C. Sri Chamunḍa-raja built two temples presumably of Siva., one known as Chandanathadevaprasada and the other Chachipeṣvara-devaprāsāda (p. 20). The second may very well be Vachinesvara, (Va and Cha being written similarly in Devanāgarī).
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