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Kavyanusasana
of Saurashtra by Jayasimha and as built the temple on Girnara. If he is the same person he must have been very old at the time of Kumārapāla's expedition; because, as we saw on the authority of the V. T. K., he completed the temple on the Girnar mountain in V. S. 1185-A. D. 1129 (p. 9). This Sajjana of the Srīmála community belonged to the family of Jāmba who was a Mahāmātya of Vanarāja. According to the P. P. S. he had two niore brothers named Āmba and Dhavala. +
From the inscriptions of V.S. 1210-A.D. 1154, and V. S. 1213-A. D. 1157 we learn that Şrī Vaijāka or Vaijalladeva was the Mahāprachanda Dandanāyaka (that is the great terrible general) of Kumārapāla. In the reign of Ajayapāla, we learn from a copper-plate of V. S. 1231-A. D. 1175 that he was a governor of Narmada-Tata that is of Lāța Deşa.
From the P. C., we learn that Ambada – son of Udayana and according to the P. P. S. a step - brother of Vāgbhata (p. 32 ) was also one of the generals of Kumārapāla. He was, as we saw, responsible for the conquest of Konkaņa and slaying of Mallikarjuna.
+In addition to this Sajjana the General of Jayasimha and Kumārapāla, prabandhas mention three more Sajjanas. One is Sajjada Sākariyāka of Jayasimha's time. (P. P. S. p. 36). Another is Sajjana the potter who saved the life of Kumārapála by hiding him in a kothi. He was rewarded with Chitrākūta when Kumarapāla became king. The Dandanayaka Sajjana of Kumārapāla who accompanied him to Chītod is identified by some with this potter Sajjana (P. P. S. p. 38) There is another Sajjana of the time of Bhima II who was also a general and an orthodox Jaina of the Srimála community (P. P. S. p. 49 ).
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