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THE DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA
this branch) to Mahipala. The latter is said there as the adhipati of Gopalikera (probably the original form and the immediate source of the modern name Gwalior). The inscription is fragmentary. Verses 7-9 seem to refer to the death of Mahipala, and must have recorded the name of his successor; but unfortunately it is not found in the portion preserved. The object of this inscription is to record the setting up of a linga when 1161 years had elapsed from the reign of Vikramärka.1
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We do not know of the successors of Mahipala from the Jain sources. The Kacchapaghatas of Dubkunda: The history of the Dubkunda branch of the dynasty is also known from a Jain inscription. This inscription is a large one and was discovered in the ruins of a temple at Dubkunda in a dense forest on the left bank of the river Kunu, 76 miles to the south-west of Gwalior. It consists of 61 lines in Samskṛt opening with 'Om Om Namo Vitarāgāya' and 6 verses invoking the Jain Tirthankaras Rṣabhanath, Santinath, Candraprabha, Sanmati (Mahavira), sage Gotama and the goddess of Scripture (Srutadevata). The inscription is fortunately dated V.E. 1145 (A.D. 1088), in the reign of Vikramasimha. The object of the inscription is to record the grant made by Mahārājādhirāja Vikramasimha to a temple.
From the genealogy of Kacchapaghatas given in this inscription we know of the following kings:
Yuvaraja; his son Arjuna; his son Abhimanyu; his son Vijayapala and his son Vikramasimha.
The record introduces them as follows:
"There was an ornament of the Kacchapaghața family, and a son of the illustrious Yuvaraja, who was white with fame that spread abroad in the three worlds, the illustrious prince (Bhüpati) Arjuna, a leader of a formidable army of unparalleled splendour, a prince whom even the ocean did not equal in depth, and a bow-man who by his skill in archery had completely vanquished the earth. Having, anxious to serve the illustrious Vidyadhara-deva, fiercely slain in a great battle the illustrious Rajyapala, with many showers of arrows that pierced his neckbones, he unceasingly filled all the three worlds with his imperishable fame, brilliant like pearl strings and like the orb of the moon and the foam of the sea."3
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1 IA., XV, pp. 201-202.
2 EI., II, pp. 232-240.
3 EI, II, pp. 233, 237, lines 10 - 13 : आसीत्कच्छपघातवंशतिलकस्त्रैलोक्यनिर्यद्यशः ।
पाण्डु श्रीयुवराजस्नुरसमद्युद्भीमसेनानुगः ॥ [ Contd.]
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