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CCXV From an inscription-discovered in the temple of Bhadra Kali at Prabhas Pattana dated Valabhi Samvat 850, month of Ashādha (V. S. 1225 = A. D. 1169 ) which is an eulogy of Bhāva Bịhaspati who was made a ganda or officer - in - charge of Somanātha, we get some useful information about the rebuilding of the temple of Somanātha. The first thing that we are able to infer is that the whole work was over before V. S. 1225-A. D. 1169, five years prior to Kumārapāla's death. Another thing that we learn is that it was at the suggestion of Bhāva Bịhaspati that Kumārapala. ordered the re-building of the temple. It may be that Bháva might have approached the king through Vāgbhata who might have drawn the attention of Kumārapāla upon the necessity of re-building the temple simultaneously with the rebuilding of Kedāreşvara. We may put this event between V. S. 1220-1225A. D. 1164-1169.
The last great political event of Kumārapāla's reign was his war with Mallikārjuna of Konkaņa of Silāhāra dynasty. This event is not narrated in the Samskặta Dvyásraya but it forms the subject-matter of the sixth canto of the Prākrta Dvyāsraya.
The whole of the P. D. K. is devoted to the life of Kumārapāla and is entitled Kumārapālacharita. The preceding five cantos describe the city of Aşahillapura and the daily life of Kumārapāla and also the seasons.
* See the B. G. Vol. I p. 185-186.“Of this Mallikārjuna two stone-inscriptions have been found ope at Chiplun dated A. D. 1156 (Saka 1078) the other at Bassein dated A. D. 1160 (Saka 1082 ). p. 86.
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