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( 18 ) JHALAU MANGO: A Rşatriya of the Jhālā family. PC (p. 72) relates that he used to thrust into the ground two pārācis (= Desi pārāi, an iron instrument for digging) before taking his seat in the court. A voracious eater, he was asked by the king why he moved unarmed, to which his simple reply was that whatever was available at the emergency became his weapon. Just for test an elephant was once directed towards him all of a sudden. Immediately he struck a dog against its trunk and twisted its tail, which resulted into the death of the elephant. He is stated there to have fallen on the field of battle while fighting against the Muslims near Pāțaņa, where a memoir is known as the altar of Mā ngū. This last statement speaks for his historicity.
( 19 ) SA DHĀ SEKHARĂ: Nothing is known about this courtier, but he appears to have belonged to the Sodhā clan of the Rāja pūtas.
(20) KAVISĀRVABHAUMA PAŅDITA SOMESVARU: No 'scholar' and excellent poet' named Somes vara is known to have flourished during the reign of Siddharāja. One Someśvara Para māra of Kiradu is noted to have been a feudatory courtier of this king. The present reference, therefore, seems to have confused this Ksatriya courtier Som eśvara with the renowned poet Some śvara, the author of Kirtikaumudi etc., who flourished later under the patronage of minister Vastu pāla.
. (21) PAŅDITA JAYADEVA: None of this name is known to have flourished during Siddharāja's reign. A minstrel of this name flourished in the reign of his successor Kumāra pala according to the Rāsa Mālā [Guj. ed., 1922, Vol. I, pp. 279-280). One Pandita Ja y a de va, again, is stated to have fourished in the days of the great minister Vastu păla*. The authors of the Prabandhas are known for their habit of placing personages of different ages together,
( 22 ) PAŅDITA SORU : This name probably refers to Sūra, whose brother Soma was Siddharāja's treasurer according to Some. Ś vara's Kirtikaumudi [III. 8-9). This Soma was the grand father of the great minister Vastupala, This Sūr a's father Can da pra såda and grand-father Canda pa also were ministers.
Vide GMRI, p. 313. * Vide, e.g., PC, p. 103. Ş Vide GMRI, p. 442,
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