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KUMARAPALA CHAULUKYA 99 by the mother-queen Miyanalladevi who continued receiving the loyal support of her ministers, Siddharaja was a magnificent ruler. It was he who raised the Chaulukyan kingdom to the position of a leading power in India. According to the Prithviraja-Vijaya, he had a sister named Kanchana.devi who was married to Arnoraja, the king of Sambhar. Siddaraja was a great patron of learning and an earnest seeker after truch. A Saivite was he and no doubt a Saivite he died. But it was his chief delight to hear the professors of different sects discussing the merits of their respective faiths. Hemachandra was also invited by the king to assist him in his pursuit of truth. The invitation was accepted. The learned Suri often visited the king in his , alace who received him with great courtesy and conversed with him freely on various religious topics. Hemachandra was one of the most gifted men of his time and was always practical in his aims and objects. With his tact and ready wit coupled with his vast and deep learning, he not only succeeded in consolidating the Jaina influence in the Court, but also in impressing the king with the beauty and dignity of the great faith of which he was no mean representative. At the request of the king he composed his first literary work-the famous Siddha-Hema-Vyakarana and speaking in our every day phraseology dedicated it to him.
On the death of Siddharaja, which took place in A.D. 1!43, Kumarapala ascended the throne. He was born in A.D. 1093. His father, Tribuvanapala, lived in his ancestral •appanage of Dethali. His grand-father Devaprasada, the son of Kshemaraja had burnt himself on the Tuneral pyre shortly after the death of Karna. Tribhuvanapala married Kashmira-devi a woman of low birth by whom he had three sons, Mahipala, Kumarapala and Kirtipala and two daughters, Pramala and Devala. Pramala was given in marriage to Kanahada-deva, the military commander of Siddharaja and Devala to Arnoraja, the king of Sambhar. Kumarapala himself was married by his father ito Bhopala-devi who in due course bore him a daughter named Lilu. JayasinhaSiddharaja had no male issue. In spite of all his prayers, the gods were not pleased to bless him with a son. Naturally,
Tribhuvanapala and his sons, as next reversioners, claimed the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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