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
a great diplomatic minister named Vidyādhara. With his help he attacked the Gauda king Lakşmanasena? and the Candella king Paramardi. The Rambhū-manjarī affirms that Jayacandra's arms were like pillars to tie down the elephant-like goddess of Madanavarman's royal fortune, which proves that he attacked the Candella king, the predecessor of Paramardi some time as a prince. But from the context of the prabandhas it appears that all the attacks were changed in treaties and did not create any bitterness. Nayacandra states in his work Rambhā-mañjarī, that Jayacandra had destroyed the Yavanas. This view receives full support by the Puruşa-parikṣā of Vidyāpati. According to the prabandha literature one of the inveterate enemies of Jayacandra was Cauhān king Prithvīrāja, on whose death he felt great joy." The cause of enmity is not mentioned in the prabandha literature. The friction between Jayacandra and Prithvīrăja has been generally regarded as the chief cause which led Sihābuddin Ghori's invasion of India resulting in the fall of both. The following tradition in the prabandhas accounts for Sihābuddin's invasion of Gāhadavāla empire: "A concubine of Jayacandra named Sühavādevī, having got refusal from the king of her son's claim for the throne and hence being desirous of killing her husband, summoned the Mlecchas."8 According to the Purātana Prabandha sangraha. Suratrāņa Sahābdīn (Sihābuddin), having conquered Prithvirāja, was staying in Yoganīpur (Delhi), when Sūhavādevī, the concubine of Jayacandra sent message to him to come there when she asked for. After two years she called him. In the first attack Suratrāņa (Sihābuddin) was defeated. With the advice of his wife he appointed certain Mahammada, son of Ahammada, as his general and won the battle. “In the 10th of the bright fortnight of the month Caitra in V.E. 1248, Suratrāņa captured
1 SJGM., II, p. 88: 948-:1 2 Ibid., p. 88. 3 Ibid., p. 90.
4 Act I, pp. 5-6: TTTTTTTHGITT: ATT HETTA iera1945 TULEET Tनस्तम्भायमानबाहुदण्डस्य।
5 Act I, p. 5: Ares7978177T: 1 6 Eng. Tran. Nerulkar's Edition, Chap. IV, pp. 146-47. ? SJGM., II, p. 89: 7: quattrà feira vistazo quftra
8 PC., p. 114 (SJGM., I): geriat o f e tic Trucat feat 79: HATT ETTHET TIED # yra fa alat få feat F leganti See also the Prabandha kośa ( SJGM. II), p. 57.
9 SJGM., II, p. 89: IST quattrå faze sforang? fiergi: 1