Political History of Northern India

SR No.: 001744
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gulabchandra Chaudhary
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 482
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Culture
File Size: 10 MB

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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Bhoja, lord of Mälava, with huge army. Bhoja also offered a good defence. But through certain diplomatic tactics, Bhoja found the way and assaulted Gängeya. Gängeya was captured and taken away to Dhārā. This statement of the Jain chroniclers is strikingly confirmed by the Pārijātamañjari of Madana which refers to the fact that the Paramāra king) Bhoja (c. 101055 A.D.) had his desires speedily fulfilled for a long time at the festive defeat of Gängeya (Gängeya-bhangotsava). Hultzsch rightly identified this prince with the Kalacūri Gāngeya of Tripuri.
Lakşmi karna: Gängeyadeva was succeeded by his son Karņa, born from queen Demati.” He is also known as Lakşmikarna. The names of his two immediate successors, Yaśaḥkarna and Gayākarņa, perhaps, show that Lakşmīkarna was his real name. But in records he is introduced by the shortened form Karna.
The Jain chroniclers depict him as one of the greatest Indian conquerors. He maintained and perhaps enhanced the glory of his kingdom inherited from his father. The following description of this prince is given by Forbes, a foremost historian of Gujarāta, whose most of the accounts are based on the statements of the Jain chroniclers.
"At that time the Rājā, named Kurun, reigned in Dahul Land, the modern Tipera, and over the sacred city of Käshee or Banaras. He was the son of Queen Demut, distinguished for her religious observances, who lost her life in giving him birth. Being born under a good star, this king extended his territory towards all four points of the compass. One hundred and thirty-six kings worshipped the lotus-feet of Kurun." In the same context, the author of Rāsamālā records the tradition that "envious of the fame of the lord of Oojain, Kurun prepared to attack Bhoja and in that connection arranged an interview with Bheemadeva at a frontier village, and procured from him a promise that he would make a diversion by attacking Mālava from the west. Bhoja associated
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* EI., I. p. 222, V. 26 of a Candella inscription from Mahoba. 6 Cf. ftadikafa af: 47: wt 16UTIT PC., p. 51.
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