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Introduction
CXIX
From all these accounts, we can infer that Mülarāja Solanki must have forcibly taken the kingdom of the Chavaḍas. It is highly probable that he might have been the sister's son of the last king as Arisimha relates. That drunkenness had something to do with it - was the belief of the people in the time of Kumārapāla.
In his copper-plate-grant dated V. S. 1043-A. D. 987 discovered from Kaḍi, Mūlaraja is called Chaulkikanvayo Mahārajādhiraja Sri Mularajah Mahārājā. dhiraja. Srī Rājisutah. This means that he belonged to the Chaulkika dynasty and his father was Maharājādhirāja Srī Rāji. If this title of the father is not given to him on account of the greatness of the son we must conclude that Raji was also a king. He is called Rajibhu - that is son of Raji in the D. K. (V. 92,30). In canto III v. 99 Hemachandra calls him. the son of the brother of Dadhakka! This means that one of the brothers of Raji was called Dadhakka. Abhayatilakagani in the commentary gives the names of the three brothers as Rāji, Bīja and Daḍhakka. In the D. K. itself I have not found the name of Bīja. In Canto I v. 188 of the D. K. Mülaraja is called Chandikāmata. The commentator explains it as one whose mother was queen Chandaladevi. * Līlādevī of the P. C. may be another name or a mistaken Samskritized rendering of the Prakṛta of Chandaladevi.
According to the chronology of the P. C., Mülarāja regined from V. S. 998 to V. S. 1053 (A. D. 942-997). We have three copper-plate grants of Mularāja According to the alternative explanation Chandika would refer to the goddess Gauri.
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