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THË DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA
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About the history of the successors of Viravarmadeva the Jain sources are almost silent.
Thus the following kings have come to light from the Jain sources:--
Yasovarman I
Dhanga (A.D. 954)
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Vidyādhara (A.D. 1019)
Madanavarman (A.D. 1129-1163)
Paramardi
(A.D. 1167-1202)
Vīravarmadeva (A.D. 1261--1286)
II. THE KACCHAPAGHĀTAS
The Kacchapaghāțas were among those aspirants who became independent after the disintegration of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra power. There epi. graphic records show that they were masters of the area around Eastern Rājasthān and the region of Gwalior. They appear to be ruling over the small principalities of Gwalior, Dubkunda and Narwar. Two of these branches are known from the Jain inscriptions.
THE KACCHAPAGHĀȚAS OF GWALIOR: The history of this branch of the Kacchapaghāțas is mainly known from he Sāsabahü temple inscription of Mahipāla composed by a Jain author Yaśodeva Digambarärka.' (the sun of Digambaras, a well known sect of the Jains) who is also called in another inscription of this branch, as the Nirgranthanāth (the master of the Nirgranthas).This inscription has been found engraved on a slab inside the
1 TA., XV, pp. 33-46.
2 Ibid., p. 201-2, V, 23; a term used for the followers of Mahāvīra and in latter centuries only applied to the Digambara Jains.
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