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both the parties respectively promise to respect each other's boundaries, to keep peace, to help each other and to surrender each other's nobles who fled away with valuables. The date of the document is not to be taken as Samvat 1288 as all the documents in the work bear the same date, but it shows that Lavanaprasada enjoyed very wide powers and was authorized to make treaties with foreign powers in his own name. Other evidence also shows that Lavanaprasada was really 'Sarveśvara', for Merutunga describes him as Bhimadeva-rajyachintakari or the premier or administrator of Bhima' The appointment of Viradhavala as Yuvaraja is also probable as Bhima II had no son. The other chroniclers do not mention this probably because it was without practical consequence, as Viradhavala had died
before Bhima II.8
When Lavanaprasada and his son conducted themselves apparently at least as the vassals of Bhimadeva II, it is probable that the latter may have given them the ministers Vastupala and Tejahpāla, as Arisimba, supported by Jayasimhasūri and Udayaprabhasūri, says. Moreover, the state
7 Prabandhachintamani, p. 250. 8 Ind. Ant., XXXI, 487.
