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
1220 (1263 A.D.) The other inscription from Nadlai bearing the date. V.E. 1228 (c. 1171 A.D.) shows that Kelhana was the feudatory of the Caulukya Kumarapala. The Saciyāya Mātā inscription from Osia gives the name of his two sons who were in charge of Manḍavyapura (Mandor). There Kirtipäla is referred to Rajyavahaka (director of government). Dhārāvarsa is said there to have owed allegiance to Kelhana. An inscription from the village Jhalodi (Sirohi) bearing the dates V.E. 1252 and 1255, refers to Dhārāvarșa as the joy of the Paramāra of the Candravati whose chief queen, Srigäradevi, was the daughter of the Mandalapati Kelhana. These two Jain epigraphs certainly show some relations between Kelhana and Dhärävarṣa. Dhārāvarșa the Paramāra of Abu and Chandrāvati was a feudatory of the Caulukyas and so was Kelhana. Both, it seems, were connected with each other by a matrimonial alliance.
Some light is thrown upon his political achievements from the famous Jain source the Sundhä hill inscription, which states that Kelhana defeated the Deccan king Bhillama and after destroying the power of Turuskas, erected a golden Torana like a diadem for the abode of the holy Someša. The Deccan king has rightly been identified with the Devagiri Yadava king Bhillama (c. 1187-91 A.D.) whose Gadag inscription is dated A.D. 1191. The Turuşka king may be identified with Mu'izz-uddin Muhammad Ghuri (1173-1192 A.D.), whose reign makes him contemporary of Kelhana (1163-1192 A.D.). The conflict with Muslims is also testified by the Pṛthviraja-vijaya." Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar assumes that Kelhava fought with Muslims as a feudatory of Mularāja II (1176-1178 A.D.) which seems more probable."
Kelhana had a son named Jayatasimha, known from the Paladi Jain inscription dated V.E. 1249. The Jain sources, however, are silent about the political history of Jayatasimha and his descendants.
1 Ibid., VIII, pp. 207-208.
EI., XI, pp. 47-48.
Arbudas Pr. Jain Lekha-sandoha, Pt. V, pp. 108-109, N. 311.
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4 V. 5 EI., IX, pp. 72-77.
6 See supra, p. 140. GMRI., p. 382.