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
the Suvihita monks.1 He was certainly a dauntless man and his kingly qualities assisted him to regain the fortune of his family which was ruthlessly destroyed by the enemies.
Yogaraja: According to the Sukyta-samkirtana, Prabandha-cintamani and Vicaraśreņi, Vanaraja was succeeded by his son Yogaraja. He has been assigned a reign of 10 years in the A and D MSS of the Prabandhacintamazi and 35 years and a life of 120 years, in the other MSS of the same work"; while the Vicaraśreņi gives only 9 years for his reign. If we accept the version of A-D MSS, which agrees approximately with that of the Vicaraśregi in different regnal years and in order of succession with those of the Sukyta-sankirtana and Vicarasreni, we can deduct twenty-five years. from 120 years of his life. That will give him a life of about 95 years.
Wrong Identification Confuted: This Yogaraja has been identified by Messrs. Dikṣit and Diskalkar with Yogaraja of Harsola grants of Siyaka dated V.E. 1005 (949 A.D.). This identification is obviously wrong as the last date of Yogaraja Cavada falls in V.E. 897 (842 A.D.) which is an early period of about 100 years. To rectify this error they assume that either there may have been one more Yogaraja after Ghaghada Cavada whose name is not recorded by the Jain chroniclers or Yogaraja may be another name of Samantasimha (V.E. 930-938) who was killed by Mularāja Caulukya. But their assumption has no support at all. Mr. Ramlal Modi, on the other hand, assumes that Avanivarman alias Yoga, a feudatory of Mahendrapala Pratihära, may have been identical with Yogaraja Cavada. But the date revealed by the inscriptions of Avanivarman (V.E. 956) shows that he belonged to a later period. Thus this identification also does not seem to be correct. Merutunga gives the following information:
"Once during his reign, ships of a foreign king laden with rich cargo were driven by storm to Somanatha Paṭṭana in Sauraṣṭra. His son Kşemaraja requested his father, the king, to permit him to take possession of these foreign ships. He told him that there are in them
1 SJGM., XIII, p. SJGM, I, p. 14
3 Ibid., p. 14: (i)
136, Vs. 71-81.
संवत् ८६२ वर्षे श्रीयोगराजस्य राज्याभिषेकः । निरुद्धवर्ष १ मास १ दिन श्री योगराजेन राज्यं कृतम् ।
(ii) अनेन योगराजनाना राज्ञा वर्ष ३५ राज्यं कृतम् विंशत्यधिकवर्षशते पूगैंचिताप्रवेशः कृतः ।
4 • JSS., II, No. 3-4. p. 9 PTOC., 1924. (Madras), pp. 303-08. IA., XV, pp. 140-41.
तत्पुंत्रण योगराजेन वर्ष ९ कृतम् ।