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Introduction
CLXXIX
The defeat and imprisonment of the ruler of Surāshțra and the uprooting of Sindhurāja and other kings and the submission of northern kings are the new historical facts gathered from this inscription.
The D. K. does not mention any one of these events excepting that Jayasimha ' after putting under check the roguish kings made the way to Kedāradeva safe (XV 14). This may refer to northern kings.
The defeat of Sindhurāja, however, is referred to by Hemachandra in his Chhandonuşāsana (p, 12) and by Vägbhața in his Alamkāra (p. 57).
Who this Sindhurāja was is not yet settled. According to Simhadevagani, a commentator of the Vágbhatālamkāra, he was Sindhudesādhipa, i. e. the lord of Sindh. But, as the B. G. says “ Nothing is known regarding the Sindh war."
In the K. K., and in the Vasanta-vilása mahākāvya, however, we find that Sankha whose other name was Sangrāmasimha is called the son of Sindhurāja. * Again in the K. K. we find that Sankha asks Vastupāla to hand over Cambay* to him, because as you know, this city was subject to my father (- pit;bhukti, )' while Vastupāla answers him that it was taken by Nịpasimha - eight verses but unfortunately very much mutilated gives the whole geneology of the Chālukya family. After the eleventh verse, however, the inscription is so broken that we are not able to make much sense of what remains. We learn from it that in V. S. 998, Mūlarāja was reigning. But, the date of the inscription itself is destroyed.
Another small and broken inscription without date found at Girināra refers to the Jaina Tirthankara Nemingtha. It mentions the ruling king as Siddha Chakrapati Srī Jayasinghadeva.
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