Jain Legend Vol 3

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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Sequence of historical events also proves that from 734-735 AD, Arabs had entered the borders of Gujarat had also started mobilising armed forces to move towards Kannauja and Ujjaina. These advances by Arabs were repulsed by C lukya R ja Vikram ditya II with the governor / ruler of Gujarat P lake ina and R rak a king Dantidurga. As a result, the Arabs were forced to retreat towards Sindh again. At that time some differences of opinion were prevailing between Lalit ditya and Ya ovarmana and the same had taken the form of mutual aggression against each other. According to the opinion of Dr. P.C. Bagchi Ya ovarmana had even asked Chinese to arbitrate and resolve their prevailing differences?
R jakavi Kalha a, royal poet of Kashmir king Lalit ditya in his historical text R ja Taramgi ? writes about the resolution amongst these two (Lalit ditya and Ya ovarmana) as follows:
‘A serious mutual difference of opinion was ongoing amongst Kashmir king Lalit ditya and King Ya ovarmana of Kannauja for quite sometime. This later took the form of an armed conflict. Seeing the armed conflict taking a serious turn, they both decided to call a truce. A document giving the terms of truce was also prepared but title of the document saying, “Truce agreement between Ya ovarmana and Lalit ditya irked the adviser of Lalit ditya. He questioned the logic in writing the name of Ya ovarmana first. Both sides disagreed to write the name of their king as second. The dangerous consequence of this minor point and bickering about it was that the truce was called off. Even though the chief of Lalit ditya's army was tired of the prolonged armed conflict, still the fight between two powerful kings with the same objective of making a unified and strong India continued with serious consequences.'
Proceeding further to write the final outcome of this war, Kalha a says, 'Lailt ditya defeated Ya ovarmana and destroyed him totally.' Thus the dream of building a unified and strong India was shattered. It was a very unfortunate development for India that the hollow ego of two kings and the short sighted bickering between their foolish ministers resulted in destroying the big armies in mutual conflicts which otherwise could have jointly come to the rescue of India in bad days.
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