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Introduction
CLXIX of Svayambhū - Rudra - Mahākāla - Deva (5, 6, 13). The sages say that even a Chālukya child could protect them (14). This may have reference to the young age of the king. Jayasimha encamps on the river Sarasvatī. Barbaraka, who comes to know of it, sends his men to fight Jayasimha's army. A terrible fight ensues, and Jayasimha's army begins to fly away from the battlefield. Jayasimha himself goes to fight and his vetrin or door-keeper by his heroic speech brings back the soldiers to fight again. Barbaraka also comes to the battle-field and a mortal combat ensues between him and Jayasimha. Jayasimha strikes a blow on the head of Barbaraka with his sword which breaks into two. They wrestle with each other and the king so compresses the gaint in his arms that he vomits blood and swoons. Barbaraka is tied and made a prisoner. Then the wife of Barbaraka named Pingalikā (76) requests the king to release her husband, and undertakes to keep him in order. Thenceforth Barbaraka becomes a very faithful follower of the king, * We learn from the first verse of the thirteenth canto that Barbaraka presented the king with heaps of gold coins and rubies. He also showed Jayasimha how he could remain under sea by Vişna method (4).
Who this Barbaraka was-we are not able to say definitely. The D. K. refers to him as the leader of Rākshasas. Other synonyms of the word Rākshasa are also used for him and his tribe. Another contemporary
* According to many authorities, he was a powerful ally of Jayasimha in his war with Khengāra of Saurashtra and Yaľovarman of Mālava.
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