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Kavyanusasana According to the bardic accounts, Khengāra was killed in battle; but according to our inscription he was only imprisoned.
The name of Rāņakadevī is given neither by the P. P. S. nor by the P. C. The P. P. S. gives the name as Sonaladevī, while the P. C. as Sunaladevī. The P. P. S. quotes eleven while the P. C. eight Apabhramsa verses, supposed to be uttered by Sonaladevī, after Khengāra met a hero's death in battle.
It is not known in which year this event took place. The B. G., on the basis of an inscription on Girinar of V. S. 1176 - A. D. 1120, thinks that Sajjana was a Governor of Surashtra by that time. There is, however, only one inscription of Jayasimha's time on Girināra that I am able to trace and that one gives no date and does not mention Sajjana. But from the V. T. K., we learn that, in V. S. 1185, Sajjana, as the Governor of the place, built a temple of Neminātha; while the P. C. tells us that Sajjana spent three years' revenue in building the temple. If the account of the P. C. is to be relied upon, we can say, that Sajjana was the Governor of Surāshtra in V. S. 1181 - 82 A. D. 1125 - 26. * Surāshtra might have been conquered before A. D. 1125 -- 26.
Thus there is no direct evidence from which we can know the year in which RaʼKhangara was defeated and taken prisoner. The inscription in the Sodhalivāva of Mangarol in Kathiawar, however, gives some clue. İt gives its date in two eras V. S. 1202 and Sri
* Noghana III died in 1140 A. D. (K. G. p. 494 ) 1f Kuniārapāla's brother Kīrtipāla fought with this Naughana it must have been after V. S, 1199 = 1143 A. D.
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