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ting incident of Bhavði-yātrā wherein this king danced and his minister played upon the tabor is altogether novel and appears to be of doubtful historicity. The wording of the text, however, indicates that Jaga ddeva went not to the capital viz.. Kalyāņa kotipu ra but to a town (nagarum ) situated on the border-line which was presented by the queen of king Para. marddin to the courtesans for their maintenance. The name of the ruler of the place does not occur thereafter and hence the confusion is not cleared. Thus the name Lilāva ti is not that of Para marddin's queen but of the queen of the ruler of the border-town which was offered to the harlots as grāsa, no matter whether he was Para marddin himself or someone else. If he be a small ruler, the incident of Bhavāi ya'ra is quite probable.
There is a reference in this prabardha to Gåjan á dhipa Hammira and Gajapati Gaudes vara. The reference here is to an attack on Pattana by this Hammira and Jagadde ya's success in bringing about a truce. It cannot be determined whether this Hammira was a Rajapüła chief reigning at certain place called Gājaņagad ha or he was a Muslim invader from Ghazni. In all probability the word 'Ilammira' is derived from the Arabic term Amira' meaning (1) a nobleman' and ( 2 )
the king of Afghanistan'. Therefore any Muslim Commander may be termed Hamira'or' Hammira'. Now the Dohad Inscription dated V. S. 1196 = 1140 A.D. informs us that Siddha rāja had defeated one Sindhu rāja. A description of the battle between Siddhar äja and Sindhurāja is met with in Someśvara's Kirtikaumudi as well as Suratho'sava. Especially Kirtikaumudi II, 26 is noteworthy for our purpose. It runs thus:
असत्यहरिसैन्येन प्रक्षिप्ताने भूभृता । बद्धः सिन्धुपतियेन वैदेहीदयितेन वा ।।
i.e., just as Vaidehiday ila, ie. Rāma, bound the ocean by getting a number of mountains [bhūbhrt] thrown therein through the army of innumerable monkeys [ hari ); in the same way he (i.e. Siddhar äja) bound, i.e. caught, Sindhupati after the fall of a number of kings (bhūbhrt ] at (the hands of) huge cavalry [harisainyena ].
Now veteran historians contend that this Sindhupati or Sin. dhu räja might be a Muslim ruler of Sindh a. * The expression
Gåjaạädhipa-hammīra' of our text, in all probability, refers to this Sindhuraja. In the next prabandha viz. Madanabhrama-prabandha also Siddha
* Vide DHAI, l'arı II. p. 972; CG, p. 81.
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