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Introduction
CCXXV suggestion that Kumārapāla, even at the age of fifty learnt Samskrta grammar and three poems and thus earned the title of Vichāra-Chaturmukha (p. 89). Kapardin himself, it appears, was a learned man and a friend of Hemachandra (p. 90). When Vāgbhata was attending to the building of the temple at Satrunjaya near which he founded a town named after him Bāhadapura, he gave the charge of his post to this Kapardin. (p. 87). Kapardin was one of those persons who accompanied Kumārapāla in his pilgrimage to Şatrunjaya. He is called Bhāņdāgārika Kapardin by the P. P. S. (p. 43).
In the Prabandhakosa of Rājasekhara this Bhāndāgārika Kapardin is also called a leader amongst poets and donors (atai arani agzif 7517f: 994 Il p. 48).
Kapardin was given the post of prime-ministership by Ajayapāla-the successor of Kumārapāla. Even though warned by a Māruka who knew the significance of omens, he accepted the post. He was later on arrested and killed by Ajayapāla in his palace. (The P. C. p. 96).
About Kumārapāla's generals of the army, we have also some information. The D. K., as we have seen, mentions the Gurjara - Brahma - Senānī - whom the commentator Abhayatilakagni identifies with Kakka. He crushed the rebellion of Ballála.
From the Chitodagadha inscription of V. S. 1207– A. D. 1151, we infer that the “Dandanāyaka Sajjana" was with Kumarapāla in his expedition against Anāka, and we learn that he was one of those few people who accompanied the king to Chitodagadha leaving the rest of the army in the village of Şālipura. This Sajjana is probably the same as was appointed the governor
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