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father and son attained wider fame, more happiness and still bigger fortune.
Vanarāja respected Ninā Shețh like his own father and pleased with the valour of Lahara, the son of Nīnā, made him Commander of the State forces. Vanarāja was so pleased with his services, that he made to Lahara a stategift of the village called Sandasthala." Minister Vira
In the lineage of Lahara was born Vīra who became a
1 According to the tradition recorded in the colophon of Nemināthacharitra (in Apabhramsha) and the later accounts of Vimalaprabandha. Lahara is the father of Vira, according to the Praśasti by Dasharatha on Cell 10 of Vimalavasahī, see, Ābu, Vol. II, inscription No.51. This Vira was a contemporary and a minister of Mülarāja as also of Chāmunda, Vallabha and Durlabharāja, the three successors of Mūlarāja, who ruled from 942 to 997 A.D., his son Chāmunda ruled from 997 to 1010 A.D., Vallabha ruled for six months only and Durlabha ruled upto 1021 A.D. and was followed by Bhima I whose ministers were Nedha and Vimala, the sons of Vira. Now Vanarāja and his successors reigned between 746 and 942 A.D. which would be too long a period for Ninā and Lahara, if we are to rely on the Prasasti engraved by Dasharatha. On these grounds, the late Mm. Pandit G. H. Oza in his Vimala Prabandha Aur Mantri Vimala, Sudha (Hindi), and Buddhi-Prakāsha (Gujarāti) January 1929, concluded that very probably Ninā and Lahara were contemporaries of Mūlarāja. But the evidence of Neminātha-Charitra is more reliable and in the DasharathaPrashasti the word tatsūnu is used in the sense of tadanvaya, see, Vimala-Mantri Ane Temanā Pūrvajo, by U. P. Shah, paper read before Gujarāti Section, All India Oriental Conference, Ahmedabad, 1953. Muni Jayanta vijayaji, the author of this work also regards Lahara as a contemporary of Mūlarāja and believes that Vira was not a son of Lahara but born in the family of Lahara. Translator. .
