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referred to the Simha era20. According to this probability it was suggested to identify the king with the Caulukya King Siddharāja Jayasimha. On further study it was, however, suggested that the year 14 given in this inscription must be better taken as V.S. (13)14, and the king must be identified with King Jayasimha II, (whose other known inscriptions are dated V.S. 1311 and 1312)al of the Paramāra dynasty of Malwa, who held sway over the Kotā region from the 11th to the 13th century.22
(iii) The date of Sevadi inscription of the time of Kațudeva is read sam. 31 by D. R. Bhandarkar, who identified the king with the Cāhamāna King Kațukarāja of Nadol by ascribing the year to the Simha era and equating it with V.S. 120023. Pandit G.H. Ojha doubted the correctness of the reading of the year and contended that the year cannot be attributed to the Simha era as that the era occurs nowhere in the records of the Cāhamānas of Nadol. He proposed that if the year be really 31, it must be V.S. (12)31.24
The identificati in of the King Katudeva with the Cāhamāna King Kațukarāja · of Nadol seems quite 20. The inscription was noticed by D R Bhanda kar (PRAS. WC.,
1904-5, p. 48), who also suggested the possibility of some other Jayasimha, but remarked that the latter cannot be earlier than the Caulukya King Siddhasåja Jayasimha as palaeographically
the record cannot be dated b:fore the twelfth century. 21. Bhandarkar's List, Nos. 556, 551 22. D. R. Bhandarkar, PRAS.WC., 1905-06, p. 56, No. 2111 23. El., Vol. XI, pp. 34, 69 24. G. H. Ojha, BPL., p. 182, f. n. 6
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