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Introduction
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An inscription dated V. S. 1205-A. D. 1149 of Paramāra Someşvara a subordinate chief of Kumārapāla has been discovered in a temple of Şiva in Kirādu in Jodhpur State.
The Chitodagadha inscription of Kumāra pāla is dated V. S. 1207-A. D. 1151. This inscription is a long prasasti of 28 verses. It commemorates the granting of a village for the worship of Hara to the temple known as Samiddhesvara. It also mentions the granting of an oil mill for the purpose of lighting the temple by the Dandanayaka - the General-Sajjana. The temple was in charge of the Saiva nun Gaurīdevī a disciple of Bhattārikā Uttamādevī. The prasasti is composed by the poet Şrī Rāmakīrtti a disciple of Sri Jayakīrtti and the head of the Digambara sect. The prasasti is written in excellent poetic style.
This inscription mentions the Chālukya dynasty in general terms, refers to Mülarăja and Siddharāja and then describes Kumārapāla. We learn from it that after defeating the lord of Sākambhari and leaving his big army encamped in a village named Şālipura Kumārapāla went to Chitrakūta, i. e. Chitoda to see its beauty. The poet then describes Chitrakūta and the temple of Samiddhesvara.
We learn from this inscription that before the year V. S. 1207 i. e. before the eighth year of his reign Kumārapāla defeated Arnorāja the king of Sapādalaksha.
This is the first event of Kumārapala's reign that the D. K. narrates at great length in three cantos XVI, XVII and XVIII.
We are told in the sixteenth Canto that
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