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Introduction
CLXV
From this evidence, we may infer that Jayasimha was not of age when he came to the throne.
The main event in the time of Jayasimha's minority or the early part of his reign was an attack on Anahillapura by Naravarman * the king of Mālava when Jayasimha was absent on a pilgrimage to Somanātha with his mother Mayaņallă or Minaladevī, as she is called in the Gujarati. Probably the best part of the army was with the young King and Queen-Mother. So Sampatakara or Sāntu who was in charge of the capital had to make peace with the invader by giving, as the P. C. says, Jayasimha's merit of pilgrimage to Somanátha. It is a question whether the invader was satisfied with merely religious merit. Anyhow when Jayasimha returned, he resolved upon to retrieve his honour by waging a war against Mālava.
When on pilgrimage to Somanātha, the Queenmother used to encamp a few miles ahead of the king. As she approached Bāhuloda * a place where the pilgrimtax was levied, she found some poor pilgrims, who could not pay the tax, returning in great sorrow. Mayaṇallā’s religious sensibility was greatly affected and she, out of sympathy, returned with them. When Jayasimha
The P.C. gives the name of the invader as Ya ovarman, but at the time Naravarman was on the throne of Mālava. See Pandita Oza's article on Jayasimba in the N. P. P. Vol. IX, p. 268. Mr. Ramalal thinks that this attack was made by the Chauban king Yojaka Nadula on the strength of a general reference in an inscription two hundred years later than this event. There is no confirmatory evidence for this opinion.
* The identity of the place Bāhulola has caused some discussion amongst scholars. Two places-one on the boundary of Gujarata and Kathiawada known as Bholáda and the other
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