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Kayyanusasana overheard the consultation about the succession to the throne and informed Ajayapāla of it. This made Ajayapāla a sworn enemy of Ramachandra and his party, but a friend of Abhada, who, as we saw, later on used his influence in saving the Jaina shrine at Tarangā. - According to the same authority, Kumārapāla died of poison administered by Ajayapāla thirty-two days after the death of Hemachandra. This event must have taken place in V. S. 1230. according to the year beginning with Kārtika or Chaitra but V. S. 1229 according to the one beginning with Ashādha. In the Udayapura inscription dated V. S. 1229, Vaiskakha Sudi 3 Monday, we find Ajayapāla mentioned as the reigning sovereign. This means that Kumārapāla must have died, according to the Kārtikādi year, in the early part of the year V. S. 1230-A. D. 1174. This correctly removes the discrepancy between the P. C. and the Udayapura inscription.
Thus we see that the seeds of the disruption of Gujarat power were already sown in the last days of Kumārapāla's life. The disintegration of the Gujarat empire soon followed. For a time like the dying flicker of a lamp, the glory of Gujarat shone bright again in the time of Vīradhavala Vaghelā and his great ministers Vastupāla and Tejapāla, to be extinguished for ever in the reign of Karna II. Gujarat continued to flourish and grow rich and build temples even after this, but its political self-respect was gone! The causes of this disintegration and downfall must have been many and various, but they must not be sought in the differences of the religious creeds of the people.
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