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proper name and there remain only wo names Vijavāla and Kamna to be identified and the town Asäiya. It was on this basis that I once felt inclined to identify our Vijavāla with Vijayasimha of Udaipur and Kanna with his son-in-law Gayakarna who might have been staying with his father-in-law and felt friendly with the former's minister at the time when Kapakāmara wrote lis work at Asi which though far away from Udaipur aud even Chittor, is on the borders of the state.
This, however, did not seem very satisfactory as it had obvious weak points. So, in order to strengthen the identifications further or to discover a more satisfactory solution, I turned to the history of the Kalacuris of whom Gayākarnadeva was already thought as probably identical with our Kanna. Their genealogy showed two other kings who could be thought of as equivalent to our Karna. These were Karnadeva son of Gangeyadera, who conquered many neighbouring kings and for whom we have an epigraphical record of 1042 A, D.1 and his son Yas’alıkarna leva of whom . one copper plate is dated A. D. 1122. His son was Gayakarnadeva of whom we have already spoken. We also fiind in this genealogy one Vijayasimhadeva of whom two copper plates are dated A. D. 1180 and 1196.2
Besides these, we have an account of a Kalacuri prince called Vijjala or Vijana who was at first the minister af war under Tailap II of the Cālukya dynasty froin whom he usurped the thrown of Kalyana and extended his dominions further. The earliest epigraphical record for him is of A. D. 1157 and the latest of A. D. 1165. One of the titles used by him was 'Kalinjarapura-varādbiśvara' or lord of the best city of Kalinjar. From the account given of him in Bāsava purāna, a Lingāyat work and Vijjalarājacarita, a Jain work, he appears to have been a great patron of Jainism and to have been assassinated in A. D. 1167, as a result of a Lingayat confederacy led by Basava.3 Thus, in the Kalacnri dynasty there have been kings who could be thought of as identical with Vijavāla and Kange of Kanakāmara.
The place where the work was composed at once reminds & student of modern history of the battlefield where Sir Arthur Wellesley defeated the Marathas in 1803. It is Assaye now a small village in the Bbokardan Taluka of the Aurangabad district of the Hyderabad State. No previous history of the place is known, but it was certainly included in the kingdom of the Rastrakutas. Could it,
1. Ep. Ind. Vol. 11 p. 305.
J. B. 2. S. VIII p. 491. JAXVII p. 838; 3. Early History of the Deccan), Sec. XII and XIII.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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