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after fighting with Simha who was assisted by 'cavalrymen.' The reference is undoubtedly to Jayasimha and Sindhurāja because we find that the K. K. when referring to Jayasimha's fight with Sindhurāja mentions the attribute of having a strong cavalry with reference to Sindhuraja. On the strength of these references, Muni Jinavijayaji, I think, rightly identifies Sindhuraja whom Jayasimha uprooted as the father of Sankha who wanted to take back Cambay which was a part of Lata from Vastupāla.
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We cannot, however, say in which year this defeat of Sindhuraja took place. It, however, did take place before V. S. 1196-A. D. 1140.
As to the other event mentioned by the inscription, viz; the defeat and imprisonment of the ruler of Surashtra, we find corroboration for it in the SiddhHema grammar of Hemachandra. In the two examples अरुणत् सिद्धराजोऽवन्तीन् ' and ' अजयत् सिद्धः सौराष्ट्रान्' we find references to these two important events of J's reign. We can also infer from the uses of tenses that the conquest of Saurashtras must have taken place earlier than the siege of Avantis. Again in a verse attributed to Ramachandra - a pupil of Hemachandra - by the P. C., Jayasimha is called Giridurgamalla ' i. e. Champion of Giridurga or Junagadha (p. 63).
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The K. K., the P. P. S., and the P. C. – all mention this event in some detail. The bardic accounts of Soratha are full of it and have represented the whole episode as a tragic romance Woven round the beautiful Rāṇakadevī whom Jayasimha loved, but whom Khengara of Jungadha managed to marry and who thus gave cause for a war which ended in Khengara's
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