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
ference of that merit, and thus he induced the king to return. When Siddharāja Jayasimha returned he became angry.”
This episode most probably contains the historical fact. We know that, after the death of Bhoja, the rivalry between Paramāra and Caulukya family increased considerably. Bhoja's two or three successors could not revive the glory of Ujjayani again, but they continued the struggle with Caulukyas. Naravarman and his son Yaśovarman both were the contemporaries of Jayasimha. This above-mentioned event seems to have occurred in the reign of Naravarman though Merutunga connects it with the reign of Yaśoyarman the son of Naravarman, which seems to be a mistake. Moreover, Yasovarman was a weak ruler and he was defeated by Jayasimha. So this event can be placed in his reign. Several other Jain authorities like the Kumārapālacarita of Tayasimhasūri, the Kumāra pala-prabandha of Jinamandanagan and the Prabandha-kośa of Rājasekhara refer to this struggle between Naravarman and Jayasimha.? They state that in this struggle Naravarman was imprisoned by Jayasimha, which seems a poetic fancy, for the earlier work Kirtikaumudi refers to the fact that Jayasimha captured the city of Dhārā of Naravarman, and the Talwara inscription informs us that Jayasimha humbled the pride of Naravarman.
Most probably allied to the above quoted episode is another episode recorded in the Purātana Prabandha-sangraha. It runs as follows:
"Once wrath prevailed between Jayasimha and the minister Săntu (perhaps on account of his surrender to Naravarman). Thereupon śāntu left Pāțana in high resentment and went to Dhārā with bag and baggage. Jayasimha sent his man in disguise to get the first-hand knowledge of his activities. śāntu while living there in Mālava did not shake his allegiance to his previous lord and the land.
1 SJGM., I., pp. 58-59 : garrafast T&T Arad yra 344HTU alamanca e paga?' a : etc.
? (i) Canto 1, v, 17 27 7a 4a: 4 affia
(ii) P. 8. (iii) pp. 90-91: fet que afatetaafu Hasar TERREI द्वादशवर्षाणि जयसिंहस्य खड्गोनिष्प्रत्याकारोऽस्थात् नरवर्मचर्मघटितमेव प्रत्याकारं करोमि इति प्रतिज्ञावशात् । अत एव हस्त्यारूढं नरवणिं भूमौ पातयामास। वितस्तिमात्र चर्माहिसत्कमुदतीतरत्। अत्रान्तरे प्रधानैर्विज्ञप्तम्-राजन् ! राजाऽवध्य एवेति नीतिवचः। तस्मान्मोक्तमोऽ यम् ततो मुक्तः सः। मुक्त्वा काष्ठपिञ्जरे क्षिप्तः। नरवर्मचान्यचर्माभ्यां सिद्धराजेन निज कृपाणे प्रत्याकारः कारित:।