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Introduction
CLXXI
Barbaraka entitled him to assume the title of Siddhachakravartin - the Siddha Emperor.
The same titles continue in the colophon of the year V. S. 1179 (A. D. 1123), and in the two colophons of the year V. S. 1191 (A. D. 1135). This may indicate that his main victories were yet to come.
Hemachandra devotes the thirteenth canto of the D. K. to the description of Jayasimha's nocturnal rounds in the city and outside to hear what people say and to remove their grievances. When once on such a round, he came to the river Sarasvati and crossed it. He heard from the Daşāvatāri Aráma near the river, (that is a park where there was a Dasavatarī temple,) a moaning sound. There he finds the king of Nāgas - Ratnachūda and his wife. This Ratnachūda was of Bhogavatī in Pātāla. He helps this Ratnachūda by taking out salt-water from a well infested with wasps ahd saves him from suicide. How this incident mentioned in a contemporary work can be interpreted, I do not know. +
We learn from the Prabhāvakacharita that in V. S. 1181-A.D. 1125 the famous controversy between Kumudachandra - the Digambara and Devasūri – the Svetāmbara was held in the court of Jayasimha. We shall have occassion to refer to this event later on. *
+ Bhogavati in Pâtāla has recently been identified with Khambhata (Cambay) by Mr. Ratnamanirao Zote. Has this episode anything to do with the incident mentioned by Muhumad Ufi in the Jame-ul-Hikayata? See N. P. P. Vol. IX, p. 291, Pt. Oza's article.
* The Mudrita - kumudachandra which has for its plot the
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