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CXCVIII
Kavyanusasana
only three contemporary works. These are, in addition to the remaining part of the S. D. K., the Prākặta Dvyāşraya or the Kumārapālacharita of Hemachandra, the play called Moharājaparājaya and the Kumārapālapratibodha of Somaprabhāchārya. Some twenty verses in the Chhandonuşāsana, about 105 verses in the Desīnāmamālā and a few verses in the Trişashtişalākāpurushacharita and Parişishţaparva, have Kumārapāla for their subject. Hemachandra is the author of these works.
The Kumărapălaprabandha of Jinamandana has been, up till now, largely drawn upon by scholars.
As we inferred from the D. K. the succession of Kumārapāla to Jayasimha's throne was not in the usual manner. We have no direct contemporary evidence explaining why Jayasimha was averse to the succession of Kumārapāla. According to the D. K. (C. IX v. 70-77) Bhīma I had a son named Kshemarāja who was older than Karņa. He was asked to accept the crown which he being of a religious temper refused. Karņa, therefore, mounted the throne and Kshemaraja led a religious life in Dadhisthalī on the Sarasvati. Kshemarāja had a son named Devaprasāda.
When Karņa gave his throne to Jayasimha, he asked him to be kind to his brother's son Devaprasāda. Devaprasāda put his son Tribhuvana pāla under the care of Jayasimha and died with Karna on the Sarasvati ( D. K. C. X. v. 110 - 115 ). Jayasimha looked upon Tribhuvanapāla as his own son (X. v. 116). Kumārapāla was a son of this Tribhuvanapāla. The same geneology is given in an unpublished inscription of Chitodagadha quoted by Pt. Oza in his Rajputane -
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