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CLII
Kavyanusasana
we learn that Karna led an expedition against Mālava and inflicted a defeat on the king, bringing with him from Dhārā an image or linga of Nīlakantha Mahadeva. It appears from other sources that Jayasimha son of Bhoja with the help of the Chalukya king Someşvara of the south had regained his power after inflicting a defeat on Karna - the king of Chedi - an ally of Bhīma I. Karna Solanki of Anahillapura must have defeated this Jayasimha. But Udayāditya, who came on the throne of Mālava after his nephew Jayasimha, regained the lost power.
We learn from an inscription of Sundha Pahādi that Karna had to fight with the Chauhānas of Náddula. A severe defeat was inflicted on Karna's army. This quarrel with the Chauhāns began in the reign of Bhima I.
From the Karnasundarī Nātikā of the Kashmiri poet Bilhaņa - a contemporary work, we learn that Karņa had sent an expedition to conquer Gajjana-naara (Gajjananagara) under Rucchika, if the name in the play is not imaginary (p. 53). A messenger named Virasimha, sent by the successful general, describes, before the king, the battle which took place on the banks of the Sindhu (p. 54). · The S. S. also refers to Karşa's victory in Sindha.
Most of the accounts about Karņa, however, occupy themselves with describing his uncommon beauty of person - charming to women (K. K. C. II vs. 20-21), and his love-romances. The Karnasundarī Nātikā of the Kāshmiri poet Bilhana takes for its plot a love - episode of Karņa. The heroine is a celestial damsel - a Vidyadharī. The drama follows closely the models of Mālavikāgnimitra - a historical
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