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CCVIII
Kavyanusasana
V. S. 1201 in the third year of his reign. We cannot say exactly when the final battle was fought. It is likely that this war must have lasted for a number of years, and Kumārapāla must have got his decisive victory somewhere about V. S. 1207, or a little earlier; for we learn from this inscription of V. S. 1207 that he encamped his army in the village of Salipura and went personally to Chitrakuta. We also learn from it that his General Sajjana accompanied him to Chitrakūṭa.
The other war that with Mālava - also must have been finally won by this time - that is V. S. 1207. In the Vadanagara prasasti of V. S. 1208, the king of Malava is represented as killed.
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We learn from the praṣasti of V. S. 1287-A. D. 1231, in the temple of Tejahapala that Yasodhavala seeing that Ballala, ruler of Malava was opposing Kumārapāla, immediately killed him (Prcahina Jaina Lekhasangraha by Muni Jinavijayaji p. 79). This shows that in the fight with Ballala, Yasodhavala was Kumarapala's ally and must have actually gone to fight with him. He might have been one of those five kings who threw Ballala down from his elephant. The name of this Ballala, however, is not mentioned in any of the inscriptions of Mālava *. This means that he was some subordinate chieftain, and this rising against Kumarapala was possibly the act of some of these chieftains of Malava. This inference is corroborated by the D. K. where Ballala is called Gonardiya (XVI v. 17) which according to the commentator means that Ballala was a native of Gonarda, a town
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*Pt. Oza's Raj. Itihasa p. 176.
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