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Kavyanusasana The booty that Ambada had won is also described by the P. C. (pp. 80 - 81 ).
We find in the inscription of Tejahpāla dated V. S. 1287-A. D. 1231 previously referred to that when the Paramára king Dhārāvarsha of Abu (V. S. 1220-76) 'marched to the battle-field, the queens of the lord of Konkaņa began to weep' (J. P. J. S. II Part II, p. 79). This means that he must have been one of the chiefs who went to fight as an ally of Kumārapāla against Mallikarjuna of Şilhāra dynasty. From another source, we learn that the Chauhana king Someșvara was also with Kumārapāla's army fighting in Konkana+
The final battle must have been fought before A. D. 1162 which is the earliest known date of Mallikārjuna's successor Aparāditya. *
This success extended the Gurjara empire as far as Kānchi in the south - the original home of Anahillapura Chālukya's, if the copper - plate of Chāmundarāja recently discovered may be interpreted to suggest such a connection. In the north, the king of Delhi - Vişaldeva Vigraharāja Chauhāna - was his vassal. This, we learn from an inscription of this king dated V. S. 1220-A. D. 1164. In the east Mālava and Mevāda were in his possession; and if the Prākrta Dvyāş raya of Hemachandra is to be believed, the sway of Kumārapāla extended as far as Gauda. In the west, his power extended as far as Sindh. If this inference is correct, Kumārapāla in the last years of his reign, at least, must have been almost an AllIndia - Emperor. However that might be, the Gurjara
+ Pt. Oza's Rajputaneka Itihasa. * See B. G. Vol I, pp. 185-186.
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