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point has no significance, as he could not have chid Kumarapala for leading a beggarly life before coming to the throne.
Among the persons who had shielded Kumarapala in adversity, there were probably Alinga the potter, Bhimasimha the cultivator, Vosiri, his friend, Udayana, Vagbhata and Hemasūri. It is difficult to be sure about the places visited by him, especially as the later chroniclers add many more. But they are unanimous in saying that he had visited Cambay, Baroda, Broach, Kolambapattana and Ujjain. It need not, however, be supposed that these were the only places he visited. In those days when travelling was difficult, he must have halted at many places. The story of the miserly rat occurs in the accounts of all the chroniclers, and Rajsekhara who does not say anything about the king's early career, also knows it, as he credits him with having built a Mushikavihara out of repentance for causing the death of the mouse. The statement that he paid a visit to the shrine of Siva in Ujjain and read the verse referring to him is probably historical, as it is known to all the chroniclers and the verse is preserved in their works in the same version.
4 Prabandhachintamani, p. p. 192-3
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