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historians A.K. Forbes", Bayley?, Bühlerand Ganguly.
Siddharāja had a victory over Arņorāja. It is indicated by a verse of the Dvyāśrayas where Kumārāpāla rebukes Arņorāja for his unethical expedition. This fact is supported by Someśvara. Kīrtikaumudi states that Jayasimba married the daughter of Arņorāja.” But it is an established fact that Jayasimha had no matrimonial relations with Arnorāja but it was Kumārapāla who married his daughter.8
According to Hemacandra Jayasimha made a temple of Rudra' on the eastern bank of Sarasvatī. “He was a Saiva and Jain", says Forbes10, and "Saivism and Jainism flourished together in his administration.” After conquering Malava, he constructed this temple11. Saivism was given Royal patronage and he constructed a temple of lord Siva in Siddhapura?? which
1. Porbes, Rāsamālā, p. 135. 2. Bayley, B.C. Local Mohammadan dynasties of Gujarat, London,
1886, p. 35. 3. Bühler Dohad Inscription of the Chaulukya King Jayasimba,
I.A. X. pp. 159, 161. येन कारागृहे क्षिप्तौ सुराष्ट्रमालेश्वरी।
अन्येऽप्त्युसादिता येन सिन्धुराजादयो नृपाः ॥ 4. Ganguly, D.C. op. cit., p. 167. 5. DV. XVIII. 84-85. 6. Someśvara, Kirtikaumudi, II. 27. 7. ibid. II.28. 8. DV. XIX. 33-91. 9. DV. XV. 15. 10. Forbes, Rāsamalā. p. 134. 1. Ojba. V. G. and Bühler, G. Ed. Somapatha Prasasti of Bhava.
Bșhaspati, W.Z.K.M. III.p.2. 12. DV. XV.15.
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