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915-945 The Kardā plates of the Rāştrakūta king Karka II state that Yuvarājadeva
gave his daughter Kandakādevi in marriage to Baddiga alias Amoghavarşa III, the Rāştrakūta king of Mänyakheța, who was an old man when he ascended the throne after his nephew Govinda IV. As he was reigning from circa 935 A.D. to 939 A.D., his father-in-law Yuvarājadeva I might have flourished in the period 915-945 A.D..
Yuvarājadeva was a patron of men of letters. Rājasekhara flourished at his court. In his early days the poet was attracted by the more prosperous court of Kanauj, where he wrote his Sanskrit plays Bälarāmāyana and Bala Bhārata (or Pracandapāņdava ), and the Prākrit drama Karpūramanjari during the reigns of the Gurjara- Pratihāra Emperors Mahendrapāla I and his son Mahipāla. But as the glory of the latter prince declined, owing to the invasion of his kingdom by the Râştrakūta king Indra III, and, later on, due to the raids of Yuvarājadeva I, Rājasekhara seems to have returned to Tripuri, the home of his ancestors Akālajalada and others, in the train of the victorious Kalacuri king. There he composed his third Sanskrit play Viddhaśālabhanjika and the rhetorical work Kávyamimāmsā. The former was staged at the Kalacuri court, and contains a poetic account of certain political events of Yuvarājadeva
l's reign. It is a play of harem-intrigue. C. 917 Allațarăja, son of Bhartsbhața I and his queen Mahālakṣmi of Rāthod
dynasty was a Jaina king of Chitor. He ruled from V. S. 922 to 2010. A wife of Allatarāja was suffering from Revati-dosa. Balibhadra once came to Hatthundi and while staying there, he cured the wife of Allațarāja of the disease. -(JPI-pt. I, p. 590 ).
Predecessors of persons of Hatthuļi, gotra, now-a-days residing in Bali, Sādadi, Sanderaka and Mewar, became devotees of the Balibhadra Sūri, in Circa V.S. 973 ( 917 A.D.).-(Ibid, p. 601).
Mahāsāmantādhipati Dharanivarāha at Vardhamāna (Wadhwān), feudatory of Rājādhirāja Parameśvara Mahipaladeva donated the village of Sthali, to Maheśvarācārya, on the occasion of Uttarāyaṇa in S. 839, Paușa sudi 4 (917 A. D.). The grant was composed by Sāndhivigrahika Mahindaka.-( Haddālā Plates, IA, 190 ff.).
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Ranteja, also called Ratnāvali, is situated in Chānasmā taluka. It appears, that village came into existance in about V.S. 900 to 950. For, in one of the Jaina temples of this village, we come across two inscriptions (See, Prachina Jaina Lekha-Samgraha Pt. II, Nos. 466-467 and JTSS-Vol. I, p. 76) dated V.S. 1157, wherein the name of this village is recorded as Rantaija. These inscrip. tions mention the installation of two Jaina images, one of Lord Supārsva and the other of Lord Pārsva.
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