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CLXVIII
described in it as Samasta - Rājāvali-Virājita-Mahārajadhiraja Sri Jayasimhadeva. ‡
This inscription gives the name of the Chief Minister as Āṣvāka. This Aṣvaka is the same as the Asuka of the colophon of Bhadrapada V. S. 1179. We also learn from the PrabhavakaCh. that when Devasūri after defeating Kumudachandra in a public debate refused to accept money offered to him by king Jayasimha, his minister Asuka advised the king to build a Jaina Temple with it as Devasuri was indifferent to wealth (p. 295 vs. 270-271). Now we know that this debate took place in V. S. 1181. This corroborates the evidence of the colophon as well as the inscription. The title Siddha chakravarti in the colophon indicates that between the mcnths of Falguna and Bhadrapada of V. S. 1179 Barbarka must have been defeated and made a slave. This title is not given in the inscription probably because it had not yet become current outside the capital where, however, the colophon of V. S. 1179 was written.
Thus we find that by the end of the year V. S. 1179 the first great deed of Jayasimha's life was achieved. Now the first deed of Jayasimha that the D. K. describes is his fight with Barbaraka who was troubling the sages of the time who approach Jayasimha to request him to kill the Rakshasa. (This is reminiscent of Rama and Visvamitra, and the killing of demons who were troubling Visvamitra. ). The whole of the twelfth canto of the D. K. is devoted to this episode. We learn from it that Barbaraka had come with his men as far as Srīsthalapura (Siddhapura) on the Sarasvati and devasted the holy place and the temple
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