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the king of Vindhyas named Pāņợupati'. His invasion against Sindhurāja is mentioned in one of his inscriptions. According to D.C. Ganguly, it was during the early part of Cāmunda's reign that Sindhurāja launched a compaign against Gujarat but Cāmuṇdarāja had a successful resistance and completely routed the Paramaras.
Vallabharāja : He was the son of Cāmundarāja who marched against his enemy, the king of Mālavā according to the commentator4. Abhayatilakagani has given the cause that Cāmuṇdarāja was going to Vārāṇasī when Mālavas invaded him and deprivd him of his royal insignia. He returned to the city and ordered his son Vallabharāja to take revenge of his insult. It was the cause of the expedition of Vallabharāja.5
This expedition is noticed by most of the Prabandhakāras® and a few inscriptions? also.
According to Kumārapālaprabodhaprandha incorporated in the Kumārapālacaritrasangrahas, it was Muñja who challenged and deprived Cāmundarāja of his royal insignia. The same is the cause of the enmity between Bhoja and Bhīma.
1. DV. VI. 19. 2. Dhruva, H. H. Ed. A Copper-plate of Trilocanapāla I.A. XII.
p. 197. 3. Ganguly, D. C. History of the Paramara dynasty, Dacca, 1933,
p. 79. 4. Dy. VII. 31. 5. ibid. VII. 31. 6. (a) Prabandhacintā maņi, p. 20.
(b) Sukrtakirtikallolini, p. 3; Kirtikaumudi, II (9-10). 7. I.A. XII. p. 197. 8. Muni, Jina Vijaya, Ed. Kumārapălcaritrasangraha, Bombay, 1956,
p. 37,
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