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THE SUKRITABAMKIRTANA OF ARISIMHA.
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of MÁlva. Somebvara then without hesitation confirms Arisimha's assertion, and we may accept it as a fact that the feud between Malvå and Gujarat did not rost during Karna's reign.
Of Jayasimha's deeds it is related, vv. 23-38, that his cavalry bathed their horses in the Ganges (v. 82), that the air-walker Barbaraka' carried him about in the atmosphere (v. 88), that he took prisoner Yalovarman, king of Dhârâ (v. 84), that he had the tank called Siddhasaras dug (v. 35), and a high pillar of victory (kirtistambha) built (v. 37). All these points are sufficiently known. It is only of interest that Barbaraka has here, as also in most of the other Praband has, become. & purely mythical being. Verse 36 speaks of Jayasimha's worship of his mother, and alludes indeed to the narrative (Prabandhackintamani, p. 139), according to which the king, at the request of Mayanalladevi, remitted a tax imposed on pilgrims going to Somanathapattana by the officials at Bahuloda.
Verses 39-43, referring to Kumarapala, first praise the favouring of the Jaina religion by this king, who abolished the confiscation of the goods of tradesmen dying without male heirs, and caused viháras to be built in every city.14 Then his victories over the Jangaleba, i. e, Arnoraja of Sakambhart or Sambhar, and over the Kannkana emperor, i, G., the Kadamba king Mallikarjuna, who ruled over the Konkan (Kirtikaumudi, II. 47-48), are celebrated. With respect to the latter, Arisimha gives a note which contradicts Somebvara's reports, but shews on the other hand that the representation of the later Prabandhachintamani is correct. It says, verse 43:-“What is wonderful in this strong one's (Kumkrapala's) conquering even the Jaigala princes, seeing the ruler of the marshland, the Kannkaņa emperor, was defeated by his very tradesman (banij) ? "
Somesvara, in the Raumudi, ascribes both victories to the king himself; in the Prasasti of Tejalpåla's temple at Åbu (vv. 35-86) on the other hand, the first is ascribed to the Paramara Yasodhavals and the second to his son Dhardvarsha. Merutunga, on the other hand, records in the Prabandhachintamani, p. 201 ff., that the SrimAl-yņia Amrabbata, son of the counsellor Udayana, 15 advanced twice against the king of the Konkaņ.. At first he suffered defeat, but in the second campaign he is said to bave slain. Mallikarjuna.
Kamarapala's successor is called in verse 44, Ajayadeva instead of Ajnyapala. This form of the name is also found elsewhere (see Ueber das Leben des J. M. Homachandra, g. 55, note 6). Like all Prabandhas, the Sukesitasankirtana mentions with praise that the king sent him as a tribute from Sapadalaksha in Eastern Rajputana, a golden mandapika, i. e., a little ornament in the form of a mandapa or pillared ball. Not less known is the victory which (v. 46). Ajayadeva's son Malardja II. gained over the Turushkas, s. e., over Muhammad Shahabuddin Thorl. The Muhammadan authors (see Elliot, History, Vol. II. p. 294) confirm this information, which is found also in the Prithvirájanijaya (Kasmir Roport, pp. 62-63).
Mach more important as that part of the work (Sarga II. 48-67, Sarga III. 1-62) which follows next, relating to Bhimadeva II., representing his relation to Levanaprasada and his son Viradhavala, the Rank of Dholka, and stating how. Vastupala became minister. to the latter. Arisimha gives an account here, which differs markedly from Someávara's narrative in the Kirtilaumudi. It will therefore be as well to give the most important verses of this part word for word:
II. .48. Now, his (MOlaraja's) brother, the illustrious Bhimadeva, whose invincible, terrible arm, like the post of a gate, destroyed all his enemies, wears the amulet of the sphere for which the shores of the oceat furnish the pearls.
49. His whole life long he held fast to the retleotion : This seat of the gods (Mount Meru) ought not to disappear through my liberality, which lasts but for a moment,
#8 Blihler, Dober das Leben des J. W. Homachandra, Bd. 89-40. 16 See Nober das Leben der J. K. Homach andra, 8. 9 ard note *8.
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