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Introduction
CXCII steadfast in loyalty to his king. Jayasimha came to know of this and repented of his conduct with the old minister and called him back. When Sampatakara was returning to Gujarata, he died on the way at a place called Āhada on the border line of Mevāda and Mālava, the original site of Udaipur.
Mūnjāla, we learn from a colophon of a ms., was a mahāmātya great minister of Karņa in V. S. 1146A. D. 1090. The P. C. tells us that Mūnjāla managed to substitute Mayaņalla in place of a low-born woman whom Karņa loved. But this whole episode is, as we saw, without any historical foundation. The second reference to Mūnjāla in the P. C. informs us that when Jayasimha could not take Dhārā, Mūnjála, on the strength of his secret information, asked Jayasimha to attack by the southern gate. Again it was at the suggestion of Mūnjāla that a wooden sword was given instead of a real sword to Yasovarman in the triumphal march when he was seated behind Jayasimha. If Munjāla lived so long as to do all these things, he must have been very old indeed!
From V. S. 1179-80-A. D. 1123–24, Āsvāka or Āşuka seems to have occupied the position of one of the chief ministers. From the M.K.C., we learn that Mahattara Gangila was the prime minister in V. S. 1181-A.D. 1125.
We know from the two inscriptions of V. S. 1192A. D. 1136 that Dādāka was the prime minister at Anahillapura. But nothing more is known about this Nāgara prime minister at the time of the great Mālava victory. His son Mahādeva was the Governor of Mālava.
In the inscription of V. S. 1193 Ambāprasāda is referred to as the Mahāmātya and in charge ofVyayakaraṇa - treasury.
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