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Kavyanusasana borrowed many passages from the Kāvyamīmāmsä in his Kāvynuşāsana. Mahendrapāla was also a devotee of Bhagavatī.
He was succeeded by Mahīpăla. He is known also by the name of Kshitipāla Rājasekhara was living in his time also. He refers to him in the prologue of his play Balabhārata, as the Mahārājádhirāja of Aryāvarta and the conqueror of Murala Mekala, Kalinga etc. He fought with Rashtrakūta king Indrarāja III and was defeated according to the account of the Rashtrakūtas. A copper-plate of his has been found in the village of Hadala in Kathiawad of Saka samvat 836 ( =914 A. D.), from which we learn that a feudatory of his named Dharaṇīvarāha of the Chāpa dynasty, was reigning there. Another inscription of his dated V. S. 974 (=918 A. D.) has also been found.
He was succeeded by three kings: Bhoja II, Vinayapāla, the younger brother of Bhoja and Mahendrapāla II, the son of Vinayapāla. In his time Gujarat seems to have become independent under Mularāja Solanki of Anahilavāda Pātaña. (See Nägari Prachāriņi Patrika — New series Vol. IX; pp. 320-27).
In this period upto 953 A. D. Bhinnamäla seems to have continued as the most important city in Gujarāta. Immediately after that during the reign of one Bhimasena a migration of 18,000 Gurjaras from Bhinnamala is recorded. *" An important result of this abandoment of Bhinnamäla was the transfer of overlordship from Bhinnamāla to Anahilavāda ". (B. G. p. 469 ).
* According to the Srīmāla Purā!a Srī left that city in the V. S. 1203=1147 A, D,
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