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
seems from the narration that he lived there for several years before the incident of 1038-39 A.D., when he instigated Bhoja to invade the south. During these years of diplomatic relations Bhima consolidated his position. He made an alliance with the powerful king Karņa of Dahal who later on proved him of great help in defeating Bhoja.
Bhoja then diverted his attention towards the north but there he received a set-back. The Jain inscription from Dubkunda of the time of the Kacchapaghāta Vikramasinha refers to that "Abhimanyu (c. 1035-44 A.D.), one of the predecessors of Vikramasimha who highly praised the skill shown in the management of horses and chariots by the very intelligent king, the illustrious Bhoja." This statement shows that to Abhimanyu he submitted and paid his subservience. The Sāsabahū inscription (V.E. 1150) composed by the Jain Yaśodeva also informs us that Kirtirāja Kachavāhā also defeated Bhoja, the king of Mālava. As we know that these Kacchapaghātas were the feudatories of the Candellas and a Candella inscription described Bhoja as worshipping Vidyadhara 'full of fear like a pupil', we may assume that through the assistance of the Candellas he must have received this set-back.
In the N.W. also Bhoja made an incursion. The Jain authority known as the Sundhā Hill inscription of Căcigadeva narrates that Cāhamāna Anahilla of Naddūla defeated his army and killed Sadha, a general (dandādhīša) of the Mālava king Bhoja in the battle. But we know from other sources that the Naddūla king soon submitted. Bhoja was already Master of the Citrakūta fort and built there a temple to 'Tribhuvana Nārāyana'.4
The engagement of Bhoja in the north made his southern and western enemies bold and they raised their heads against him again. Bhoja prepared himself to punish them. Merutunga in his Prabandha-cintāmaņi states:
"In a certain year, owing to a failure of rain, it became impossible to obtain grain and grass and king Bhima was informed by his representatives that king Bhoja for this very reason was preparing for an invasion. This made him anxious, and he gave orders to his diplo
1 See supra, p. 78: Chapter on the Kacchapaghātas. 2 EI., IX, pp. 70 ff. 3 RMR., 1917, pp. 2-3.
Ibid.