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CLXXVIII
Kavyanusasana
Governor of the place. It appears that he or his father was one of the principal generals of Jayasimha in his war with Mālava.
Another inscription of the same year but found at Bhadreşvara in Cutch gives us similar information. The two additional titles are-Dhārāvidambaka, (molester of Dhārā ) and Trailokyamalla - ( champion of the three worlds ). The prime minister at Anahillapātaka was Şrī Dādáka. Something is given for the worship of Sri Udalesvara and Sri Kurapālesvara in a new temple built by Sri Kurapāla - son of Sri Āsapāla, son of Todi, son of Mahārāja. The inscription is incomplete.
The inscription of V. S. 1196 = A. D. 1140 found at Dohad gives us some more historical information. Excepting the last line, the whole of it is in verse. It begins with a Namaskāra to Vasudeva. We learn from it that Jayasimha had thrown into prison the kings of Surāshtra and Mālava ( v. I); he, also, had uprooted other kings, and made the kings of the north carry his orders (v. 2). In the third verse, his capital Anahillapātakanagara whose temples obstruct the path of the sun is compared to Ayodhyā of Rāma. The fourth verse tells us that the Vahinīpati (probably meaning captain of a battalion ) Keşava was made the general of the army in the Dadhipadra District (Dohad District) by the king residing in the capital. The fifth verse informs us that this general Keşava built a temple in honour of Goganārāyaṇa in memory of his mother in Dadhipadra. *
* An inscription of V. S. 1198 - A. D. 1142 of the subordinate king Someşvara has been found at Kiradu in the Jodhapur-state.
An inscription discovered at Sambhara consisting of twenty
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