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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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJASTHANA
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Most of the inscriptions belonging to Kumārapala's reign discovered uptil now are those of his samantas or vassals. The Mangrol inscription of V.E. 1202 (A.D. 1146) refers to Muluka (of Gohila family as Kumārapäla's vassal.1 The two Kiradu inscriptions dated respectively V.E. 1205 (A.D. 1149) and V.E. 1218 (A.D. 1162), inform us that Someśvara of the Paramāra family was his feudatory chief.2 From the Tejahpāla temple inscription at Mt. Ābu of V.E. 1218 (A.D. 1162) we know that Yasodhavala and Dhāravarsa Paramära family were under his suzerainty.3 Kelhana and Kīrtipäla of the Cauhāņa family were Kumarapāla's samantas.
The above account gives us some idea about the extent of the Gurjara Empire at the time of Caulukya Kumārapāla.
His ministers: After his accession, Kumārapala, according to the Prabandha-cintama;ii, appointed his benefactor Bahada (Vägbhata), the son of Udayana, as his first prime minister, but the later writers such as Jayasimbasūri, Jinamaņdanagani? and other Prabandha writers state that Udayana was raised to the prime ministership and his son Bāhada was appointed as a minister in charge of various royal duties. Unfortunately, regarding the prime ministership of Udayana, we have no reference in the contemporary or early literature. Bāhada was, no doubt, a minister according to the Dvyaśraya-kävya.8 The Nädol copper plate of V.E. 1213 also confirms this, but there is no mention either in the contemporary literature or in epigraphs. We know also another Vāgbhața as the author of an alankara treatise, who flourished in the reign of Jayasimha Siddharāja. The commentator on his work calls him as a son of Soma. 10 According to
1 BI., pp. 158-60. 2 Nahar - Jaina Lekha-sangraha, Pt. I, pp. 252-53; See also EI., XX, Appendix, p. 47, No. 372;
BI., PP. 172-73. 3 El., VIII, p. 216, V. 36. 4 See supra pp. 156-160.
5 SJGM., I, p. 79: a var afarrag: situades: vaizdiHI FETE मात्यश्चके।
* KC., Canto II, V. 476.
? K. Pra., p. 34: TEATTET TIT Lafraai 32442 HETATRICE CU Tga aprI: सकलराजकार्येषु व्यापारितः।
8 DV., Canto XX, Vs. 91-92. "IA., 1912, p. 203: ETHIETTES estzijazot at 7.CHTESTTTTT ....!
10 Kārvamälā, No. 48. Commentary on V. 148 and Vs. 45, 76, 81, 85, 125, 132 etc,