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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 noblos who fled away with valuables. The date of the dooument is not to be taken as Samyat 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 Lavanaprasāda was really Sarvesvara', for Merutunga describes him as Bhimadeva-rājyachintākāri or the premier or administrator of Bhima.? The appointment of Viradhavala as Yuvarāja is also probable as Bhima II had no son. The other chroniolers do not mention this probably because it was without practical consequence, as Viradhavala had died before Bhima II.
When Lavanaprasāda 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 Tejabpāla, as Arisimba, supported by Jayasimhasūri and Udayaprabhasūri, says. Moreover, the state
7 Prabandhachintamani, p. 250.8 lnd. Ant., XXXI, 487. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
