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ligent, brave and generous. He was a shrewd politician and either jointly with his father or independently led armies to battle-fields, negotiated peace treaties or entered into warfare with other princes. He had two wives, Rayaņādevī and Lakhamādevī, and one daughter called Gauradevi. Teja pāla had a son from Suhadādevi who was known as Suhadasimha. Suhadasimha married Suhaďādevi and Sulakhaņādevi. Tejapāla had a daughter called Baulade (Bakulā-devi).
Vastupāla and Tejapāla stayed in Sumbālaka, their birth place, till the death of their father but later on went with their family to live in a place called Mandali ( Māņdala) in Gujarat. In course of time, when their mother died, the two brothers were extremely pained and their great sorrow was removed by the religious discourses of Shrī Narachandra Sūri of maladhārī gaccha who was a Jaina monk-teacher of the family in which their mother was born. On the father's side, Shrimān Vijayasena Sūri, the pupil of Shrī Haribhadra Sūri was the family preceptor. Haribhadra Sūri was the chief disciple of Shrī Ānandasūri-Amarasūri of the Nagendra gaccha. At the instance of this Vijayasena sūri, ? these two brothers led a big samgha on a pilgrimage to Shatruñjaya and Girnār at huge costs and with due festivities. As Samghapatis (leaders of such groups of pilgrims ) they piously worshipped the gods in these two places of pilgrimage. Chaulukya (Solanki) Princes
Some of the rulers of the Aņhillavāờa-Pāțaņ, the capital city of Gujarat, who flourished before Kumārapāla have been referred to previously in the account of the
1 Dr. Sandesara, op. cit., p. 28, identifies it with modern Mandala near Viramgām in Saurāșțra-Translator.
· For Vijayasena sūri, see Sāņdesarā, op. cit., pp. 69-70.
