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Dvyāśrayakāvya
Mahendra, the king of Marudeśa gave the hand his younger sister of Nāgarāja, the younger brother of Durlabharāja at the time to the Svayamvara ceremony of Durlabharāja.
After Svayamvara, the king of Hūņas was defeated by Durlabharāja in the battle-field. The king of Mathurā, who had won Turuşkas and mountaineer kings, was killed by Durlabharāja3. Similarly the king of Āndhra, Cedī, Kuru and Kāší were won by Durlabharāja. But according to A. K. Majumdar, this victory was introduced by Hemacandra merely to illustrate the characteristics of a Mabākāvya.
One day in the court of Bhīma two messengers came and informed him that the king of puņdras accepted his order but in the areas of Vịndāvana, Mathurā, Soņitapura and Mithilā, no one obeyed his orders. As regards Mathurā, it was won by Mahamood Ghazoi in his ninth invasion?. Perhaps, Mahamood left a representative at Mathurā. Probably such a representative was a Mohammadan. As Bhīma was totally against Mahmood Ghazni so his inimical relations with the king of Mathurā are natural.
Again spies informed that Bhimadeva had no recognition in the Kurudeśas. Perhaps, the policy of Durlabharāja against Kurus continued. Bbīma had a good policy towards Andhra, Magadha and Vịndāvana'.
1. DV. VII.113 2. DV. VII.136. 3. DV. VII.137-139. 4. DV. VII.142-46. 5. Majumdar, A.K. Chaulukyas of Gujarat, p.4. 6. DV. VIII.41-44. 7. Brockman, Draka. Ed. U. P. Gazetteer, Vol. VII. Allahabad, 1911,
p. 118. 8. DV. VIII.46. 9. DV. VII. 48-50.
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