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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
3- VIKRAMADITYA-PAÑCADANDACCHATRA-PRABANDHA
This is a very nice folk-tale which need not be regarded to have any bear. ing on history.
4. SAHASRALINGASARAḤ-PRABANDHA
The names of as many as thirty-two courtiers of Siddharāja Jayasimha are mentioned at the commencement of this prabandka. Some of them are referred to elsewhere also. We may take up each of them in turn for necessary discussions :
(1) SANTU, also called S a patkara, was the first Governor of Lata under Caulukya king Karnadeva (1064-1094 A.D.), He was later appointed as the Chief Minister. Kara's young successor Siddharaja Jayasin ha, according to PP'S (p. 35), received his training in state-craft under the guidance of Santo, who was also the patron of poet Bilhana. He seems to have wielded supreme power till 1123 A.D. whereafter, in wrath, he resigned and went to Dhara. In due course, however, Jayasimha realized his loyalty to him even while staying at Dhara and recalled him to láta a. While returning, however. he died on his way at Ahaa near Udayapura. He is stated to have been a native of Baroda, the names of his parents being Vranaga and Somapuri
(2) ÁBHADA VASAHA was a generous merchant to whom are devoted separate prabandhas in such prominent works as PC, PK and PPS. He seems, however, to have come into prominence during Kumarapala's reign.
(3) DHARAVARASA CADAILAU is the same as Dhara varsa, the Para mara king of Candravati. He is known to history as a valiant feudatory of the court of Patana. Dharavarṣa flourished during 1164 A.1). to 1220 A.D., ie., during the reign of Kumarapala! May be, an earlier king of the same family is meant by this later narne.§
(4) SAMARASI RAULA CITRAUDAU would naturally mean Samarasimha Ruvala of Cittoḍa. This king, however, ruled
* Vide PHNIJS, p. 259: GMRI, pp. 248, 263, etc.
§ Vide GMRI, p. 525.
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