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campment it was, and coming to know that it was Àmbada's, called him to his presence and sent him for the second time against Mallikarjuna with a large army. This time Ambada's efforts were crowned with success. Mallikārjuna was defeated and killed and Ambada returned to Anabilaváda with large booty.16
The credit of defeating Mallikarjuna given to Ambada by the Jain chroniclers is not undisputed. Jayanaka in the Prithvirājavijaya gives this credit to Someśvara, son of Arnoraja, by his wife Kanchanadevī of Gujarat.In an inscription in Tejabpāla's temple on Mt. Abu, Dhārāvarsha,
16. Prabandhachintamani, p. 203; ChăritrasundaraKumārapālacharita III, (iii), 1–56.
17. Prithvirājavijaya, VII, 15. Jayasimha was the maternal grand-father of Somešvara. Hearing from the astrologers that he would be an incarnation of Räma to perform certain duties, Siddharāja took him to his court. His successor Kumārapāla brought up the child and thus made his name significant. He received the name Pratā palankesvara, and married Karpuradevī, daughter of the Kalachuri king of Tripuri. He built five temples at Ajmere and several others in a village Ganganaka. He founded a town and named it after his father. His inscriptions dated V, S. 1226, 1228, 1229,
1230 and 1234 show him to be a contemporary of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
