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Kavyanusasana
The second colophon of the V. S. 1191-A. D. 1135 is of the month Fälguna - the year beginning with the month of Chaitra. In the colophon of the month of Jyeşhtha in the year V. S. 1192 A. D. 1136, that is about three months later we find the additional title of Avantīnātha - Lord of Avanti. This shows that Jayasimha got his final decisive victory over Mālava within these three months.
The P. P. S., the P. C. and other works give many details about this war with Mālava. One is that this war lasted for twelve years. If this tradition is correct we can say that the war in the reign of Jayasimha must have begun in the year V. S. 1180. This does not mean that Jayasimha was out of Anahilla pura fighting for these twelve years. For, as we saw, in the year V. S. 1181, Kumudachandra and Devasūri held their dialectical duel in his presence at Anahillapura. It was only the last attack that Jayasimha led personally. This is the impression that we derive from the D. K. also.
The fourteenth canto of the poem is devoted to this episode. We are told that as Jayasimha used to go out for his usual morning-ride on a male or female elephant or on a horse, no body could suspect debate of Devasūri and Kumudachandra has two verses describing Jayasimha. In this play, he is generally referred to as Siddharāja. From these verses we learn that Jayasimha had brought Barbaraka under his subjection, that he could frighten Sakinīs (evil spirits embodied in female forms) and assemble Yoginīs and that the 'Vīra' that he was - he was wandering freely in the cemetery at night with his sword in his hand. (P. 21 Act II, v. 21, p. 50 Act V v. 14). As the conquest of Mālava is not referred to, the play was probably written before V. S. 1192.
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