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Yasovarman in 733 A. D. and instead of annexing the Kanauj territory, had formed an alliance with him. In the words of Kalhana, the kingdom of Kanyakubja came under the control of Lalitãditya as if it were the yard of his house".
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This view has been accepted by Dr. Tripathi and Dr. P. V. Kane also. According to Vincent A. smith,26 'Yasovarman, the earliest known king after Harṣa's death, who sent an embassy to China in A. D. 731, was later dethroned and slain by Lalitäditya Muktāpiḍa of Kashmir, nine or ten years after i. e. in 740 A. D. Dr. Mirashi27 also accepts 740 A. D. as the year of Yasovarman's defeat and not 733 A. D. as suggested by Jacobi and other scholars. He thinks that no poet, especially a poet like Vākpatirāja, who enjoyed the patronage of the ruling monarch, would describe the defeat of his master in his Poem. The descsiption given by him, therefore, might refer to the defeat of other kings who were his enemies. The commentator Haripala also has suggested the same thing. Commenting on Gatha 829, he saysयस्यां दिशि कुपितो यशोवर्मा भवति तत्र विनाशस्य सूचका उत्पाता हराविव जगत् प्रलये। द्यते भवन्तीति तात्पर्यार्थः ।
The Jain works like the Bappabhaṭṭti-Sūricarita, the Prabandha-Kosa and others also help in fixing the duration of the reign of Yasovarman. The Prabandha-Kosa mentions that Muni Bappabhatti converted King Amarāja to Jainism in Vikrama Samvat 807 (A. D. 754). Āmarāja was the son of Yasovarman who, as these Jain works record, was already the ruling monarch in Vikrama 800 (A. D. 743). Later when Amaraja came to the throne, he honoured Bappabhatti with the title of a 'Suri' in 26. V. Smith - Early History of India'. P. 392. 27. Mirashi - Bhavabhuti' - P. 24.
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