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so she invoked the aid of Suratrāņa Sahābadina who was faced by Přthvīrāja and halted at Yoginīpura. Jaitra-candra felt happy when his adversary, viz. Přthvīrāja, was defeated, but his minister realized the danger to his kingdom. In his second campaign, the Suratrāņa entered Benares in Samvat 1248, Caitra śu, 10, and was victorious against Jaitracandra who died in the river Yamunā and whose eldest son, in the battle. That Suratrāņa treated Suhāgadevī with disrespect for her treachery against her husband and her son was converted into a Turuska.
According to the Prabandha-cintāmaņi of Merutunga', the great monarch (prājya-sämrājya-laksmir pālauan) Jayacandra of Kāśi had a title Pangu; he married Sühavā, the wife of a Sālāpati; he refused to recognise her son as the heir-apparent; she invited the Mlecchas or Turuşkas to attack Vārāṇasī; when it was beseiged, the king put her son on his elephant and plunged himself in the stream of Yamunā.
In the prabandha about Sriharşa, the author of Naişadhīya, the Prabandha-kośa of Rājasekhara' gives some facts about Jayantacandra, the son of Govindacandra and the king of Benares, who was famous as Pangula. He married a young, beautiful widow, Sühavadevī, the wife of a Sālāpati from Anahilla-pattana on which Kumārapāla was ruling. To the displeasure of Sūhavadevī, he decided to give the kingdom to prince Meghacandra and not to her son. She managed to invite the Suratrāņa of Takşaśilā to attack Benares. The king was ruined in the battle, and the town was taken by the enemy.
About the name of the father of Jayacandra, the Prabandhas do not agree among themselves, nor does anyone agrees with Nayacandra's version. Modern historians: give this genealogy: Govindacandra (c. 1114-1155), Vijayacandra (c. 1155-1170) and Jayacandra (c. 1170-1193); that means Prapandhakośa has either confused Jaya- and Vijaya-candra or more probably the name of the latter is skipped over in the text; and according to Rambhāmañjarī we will have to admit that Malladeva was another name of Vijayacandra. The Prabandhas have no reference to his seven
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Edited by Jinavijayaji, Singhi Jaina Granthamālā 1, śāntiniketan 1933, pp. 113-14. Edited by Jinavijayaji, Singhi Jaina Granthamālā 6, Santiniketan 1935, pp. 54-58. H. C. Ray: The Dynastic History of Northern India vol. I, Calcutta 1931, p. 548,
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