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GRANTS OF THE ANHILVÅD CHAULUKYAS.
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he conquered the lord of the Turushka s. “Then follows the rule of the Gajjanakas," .e. of Mr. Forbes has already correctly pointed out the Musalmans. After inserting a Prakrit verso the invasion to which allusion is made.t he proceeds to enumerate the Vaghela kigs.
For the next reign, that of Bhimadeva II. Someśvara (Kirtik. II. 59-61) treats Bhimaor Bholo Bhim, the inscriptions are of the ut- deva still worse. He says:most importance. The Gujarâtî chroniclers drutam unmúlite tatra dhátrd kalpadrumánaccessible to Mr Forbes say very little regarding kure him, and those now available do not add much ujjagámánujamnásya śríbhima iti bhápatih || 59 | more. The hearts of Merutunga and Someśvara bhímasenena bhimoyain bhúpatir na kadáchana were not with Bhima. The sovereign of Anhil bakúpakarind tulyo rájahansadamakshamah || 6011 vad interested them no longer. They turned mantribhir mándalikais cha balavadbhiḥ -satheir attention to the father of the future naihsanaih 11 ruler of Gujarât, Rañâ Viradha vala of balasya bhámipalasya tasya rajyam vyebhajyata Dhavalagriha or Dholkâ, and to his two great Jaina ministers, V&stu pala and Teja pala. (59.) “After the Creator had swiftly uprooted Mr. Forbes has therefore been obliged to trust that shoot of the tree of paradise (Malaraja 11.). for his history chiefly to the Prithirdj rásáu, his younger brother, called Sri Bhima, beattributed to Chand, and to the late Muham- came king madan writers, who, as he himself points out in (60.) “That prince was never equal to Bhithe case of the former, are not accurate. Chand masena, the destroyer of the Asura) Baka, kills Bhimadeva off at an early period of his (nor) able to tame the swan-like kings (his reign, some time before 1193 A.D. Mr. Forbes enemies). places his death in 1215 A.D. It is difficult to (61.) “The kingdom of that young ruler understand how he could do so, as he repeatedly was gradually divided between the powerful quotes the Aba inscription dated 1231 A.D., ministers and provincial chiefs (of Gujarat)." which mentions Bhimadeva as lord paramount, After these disparaging remarks, Someśvara and as Merutunga in the Prabhandhachinta- turns, like Merutanga, to the history of the Vamani says quite plainly, 1894a842
ghelas. tagat II, "Bhimadeva reigned sixty- In direct opposition to the chroniclers, the inthree years from S. 1235 Vikrama,"i.e. until 1298, scriptions prove Bhimadeva to have been by no or 1241-42 A.D. Bhimadeva's inscriptions fully means a contemptible ruler. In our land-grants agree with Merutunga. His last grant, No. 9 of he receives the titles abhinavasidalhardja, 'the our collection, is dated 1296 Vikrama, and the new Siddharaja' (the old being Jayasimha), grant of his successor Tribhuvana pala Nardyandvatdra, 'an incarnation of Vishnu,' and in 1299 Vikrama, or 1242-43 A.D. Of actual saptamachakravartin, 'the seventh wheel-king.' historical facts connected with Bhimadeva's Those epithets occur not only in his own inscripreign, Merutunga reports in the Prabandhachin. tions, but also in those of Jayantasimha támani only an attempted invasion of Gujarat by (No. 4), and of Tribhuvanapala (No. 10). Sohada, i.e. Subhata varman of Mâlava, The inscriptions prove also that he held the which was averted by a timely epigram of the Pra- greater part of Gujarât north of the Sabhardhána, t and the destruction (bhanga ) of Gärja- mati, which formed the original kingdom of Mälaradeśa by Sohada's son Arjunadeva, who râja I., and that his power was acknowledged in his own ingcriptions boasts of this exploit. by the chieftains of Chandråvati and Abů, in Further he says that Raņa Viradhavala's father, southern Rajputana. Three of our grants (Nos. Lavanaprasada of Vyâghrapalli or Vâghel, was 6, 8, and 9) dispose of villages situated in the Bhima's major domus (rdjyachintákari). At this Vardhipathaka, the Vadhiar zilla. | No. 3 point he turns aside to the history of the Vi-mentions the Agar bhat A or Gam bhût å ghelås and of their Jaina mantris. In the Vic patha ka as one of his provinces, No. 5 the cháraśreni he merely notices Bhîma's accession Châlis â pathak &, and No. 7 the Válsu. in 1285, and adds drily, tato gajjanakarájyam, ya patha ka. Again, in the Abd inscription
Ras Mau, vol. I. p. 207, and Elliot, Hist. of India, and I am inclined to consider it a translation of Bhima's vol. II. p. 294.
I Forbes, loc. cit. p. 208. Gajar&ti nickname bholo, arrogant, foolish. The Sanskrit word bala may also be rendered 'foolish, See above, and below note to the grant of Malarja L.
