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Five copper-plates of Silāditya IV have so far been published, executed in the Valabhi years (1) 372, (2) 375, (3) 376, (4) 381 and (5) 382. This is the sixth.-(H. G. Shastri, Buddhiprakasha, January 1958, pp. 9-11).
P.M.P. Silāditya IV is known to have issued from Valabhi a copper-plate grant on Sam. 376 Mārgasira su. 15 ( 695 A.D.). The Dūtaka of the grant was Prince Kharagraha.—(EI, V, App. 69).
(V. Sam. 752) Bhūrāja, Bhūyada or Bhūvada, of Kalyāņakataka in Kanauj, according to the Gujarat Chroniclers, held Gujarat and destroyed Jayasekhara of Pañcāsar. His successors in Kalyāṇa were Karņāditya, Candrāditya, Somaditya, and Bhuvanāditya, the latter being the father of Rāji whose son Mularāja, in 942 A.D., conquered Gujarat and founded the Caulukya dynasty.-(IA, 182).
Vijayāditya Satyāśraya, Western Cālukya, succeeded his father Vinayāditya. -(IA, 112; Bom. Gaz. ; 370).
Rūpasundari, wife of Jayasikhari,' ruler of Pañcāsara and sister of Surapāla, gave birth to a son named. Vanarāja' in V. S. 752" (696 A.D.). He died in V.S. 862 3 at the age of 110. 1 He was killed by Bhuvada, ruler of Kanauj in a battle. : JPI., pt. I p. 493.
3 Ibid., p.-456. Dhaneśvarasūri, the author of Satrunjaya Māhātmya, who describes himself in this work as a tutor of king Silāditya', defeated the Buddhists by taking the Syād-vāda i.e. 'may be' or the Science of Logic as his ground. - ( Šatrunjaya-māhātmya, p. 769).
Buddhist monk Guņamati was invited to China. He belonged to the Valabhi University.
Mallavādin was one of the greatest Jaina dialecticians and the author of Nayacakra. The title of 'Vādin' was conferred on him when, according to tradition, he defeated a Buddhist monk in a controversy on the superiority of a religious question at Valabhi.
Three different stories have been current for Mallavădin at Valabhi. According to Pral hävakacarita (Sringa X, V, 10) Malla was the youngest of the three brothers. They lived at Valabhi with their mother Durlabhādevi. Their maternal uncle was a Svetāṁbara monk Jinānandasūri. When defeated by a Buddhist monk Buddhānanda in a public disputation at Bhrigukaccha, he left that city and came to Valabhi, where he made his nephews his disciples. All the three received high education at Valabhi. Malla wrote his famous treatise on Jaina philosophy known as Nayacakru. Malla went to Bhrigukaccha and defeated his uncle's opponent Buddhānanda in a public debate in token of which he was given the title of Vādin'.
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