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CLXXVI
Kavyanusasana
that a memorial was raised in his honour in the form of a white Ganapati - image in that village. The P. C. quotes a verse in praise of this Vinayaka suggesting this incident (p. 59).
The triumphal march of the conquering hero riding on a majestic elephant with the royal prisoner Yaşovarman of Malava bearing in his hand a wooden sword through Anahillapura must have been an occasion of the greatest jubilation in the history of that city. Contemporary inscriptions in verse and prose mention the defeat and imprisonment of Yasovarman in so many words as if it had become a part of the royal writ. The Prabandhas dilate upon the occasion. Many must have been the panegyrics sung by bards and poets. A few of these, in the Samskṛta, the Prakṛta and the Apabhramsa, have been preserved in the Prabandhas and other works. ×
We saw from the colophons that the conquest of Malava took place between V. S. 1191 month of Falguna and V. S. 1192, month of Jyeshtha the year being
According to the P. C. the wooden sword was substituted for the real sword at the suggestion of the minister Munjāla who threatened to resign if Jayasimha refused to act according to his advice. If these incidents mentioned by the P. C. are historical, Munjala must have been very old at the time of Malava victory; because he was a Mahamatya of Karna in the year V. S. 1146 A. D. 1090.
× Hemachandra himself composed about sixteen stanzas placed at the end of his grammar Siddha - Hema. Some more are given in the ChhandonuSasana and other works. Vagbhata in his Alamkara and Vardhamanasūri in his Gaṇaratnamahodadhi give verses referring to this event.
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