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THE JAINA GAZETTE Even in the hour of their deepest sorrow and grief 1, the brothers did not allow the sentiment to overpower their reason. Tejahpala placed a guard round the cremation-place and forcibly prevented what would have proved a terrible waste of precious lives.
On the death of Viradhavala, there arose a dispute for succession between his two sons, Virama and Visala. With the support of Vastupala. Visala succeeded in securing the gadi for himself; thereupon Virama fled to Jabalipura (Jalor) and sought refuge with his father-in-law, Udayasingh, by whom he was treacherously murdered. 2
It is stated by Rajasekhara who finished his PrabhandhaKosa at Delhi in A. D. 1348 (Vik. Sam. 1405) that the reign of Visaladeva witnessed the fall of the brothers' ministry. According to him, it was due to one of the brothers having picked a quarrel with Simha, the maternal uncle of the chief. On one occasion, continues the writer, Simha committed a cowardly assault on the person of an inoffensive Jaina monk. When Vastupala came to know of the outrage, he was beside himself with rage and in the heat of passion had the finger of the offender mutilated. Simha made a complaint to Visaladeva who took away the seal of ministry from the brothers and handed it over to one Nagada, a Brahman. The story of the overthrow of the brothers' ministry which is not even alluded to by the earlier writers (Balachandra, Jina prabha, Merutunga) has not been borne out by the modern research. “It is not possible that Visaladeva who got the throne in Samvat 1295, simply through Vastupala's lavour and whose Kingdom was firmly established by him should have wrested the ministerial seal from Tejahpala and given it to Nagada. Visaladeva could not have done this even if he had thought so, as his position could not have been firm and secure
1. Vastupala gives expression to his feeling of grief in the following sweet sad sloka :
Other seasons corno and go in succession. But these two seasons have become perpetual. Now that men are deprived of the hero Viradhavala. The rainy season in their two eyes, and in their heart the bot
season of anguish.--(Tawney). 2. B.R. 1883-4, p. 156; Duff. Chronology of India ; Bom. Gaz., 1, 1, 203
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