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THE DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA
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*Bhoja was worshipping Vidyadhara full of fear like a pupil," it seems that he might have been under the command of Abhimanyu, whose father was a feudatory of the Candellas. Bhoja's defeat by Kirtiraja of Gwālior branch of the Kacchapaghāța also confirms this fact.?
Nothing definite is stated about Abhimanyu's son Vijayapāla in the Dubkunda inscription.
Another Jain inscription called Bayănā Stone inscription refers to one Adhirāja Vijaya. This was discovered on a pilaster of a Jain temple, now used by Muslims as a mosque, in the town of Bayānā near Bharatapur, in Rājāsthăn. It contains 18 lines, opening with 'Om Om Namah Siddhebhyaḥ,' It then records that in the kingdom of king Adhirāja Vijaya (line 5) in the city of Sripatha, there was a Jain teacher (sūri) named Maheśvara, a leader of the Svetāmbar belonging to the Kāmyaka gaccha, who occupied the seat of Vişnusūri. It records that Maheśvarasūri passed away when V.E. 1100 was drawing to its close. The praśasti was incised by Sādhu Sarvadeva in V.E. 1100 (A.D. 1043).
Kielhorn had identified this Adhirāja Vijaya with the Kacchapaghāța prince of that name referred to in the Dubkunda inscription. It thus denotes that the Bayānā region was conquered by this branch some time before 1044 A.D. from the Gwālior branch, one of whose inscriptions, dated in the reign of Mangalarāja (c. 955-1015 A.D.), was discovered in 'Ukhā mandir' at Bayānā.
Vijayapāla's son and successor was Vikramasimha. Nothing particular is recorded of him in the Dubkunda inscription.
From line 31 upto the end, the Dubkunda inscription is also important from the social and religious point of view. It gives the genealogy of Rși and Dāhada, two Jain traders, on whom Vikramasimha had conferred the rank of Sreşthins in the town Cadobha (modern Dubkunda). The Sreșthin Jāsuka, their grandfather, is described as the head of a family or guild of merchants which had come from Jayasapura. Lines 39-48 contain an account of some Jain sages belonging to the Lātavāgața-gana, the last of whom, Vijayakirti, not only composed this inscription, but also induced the people to build the temple at which the inscription was afterwards engraved. One
1 EI., I., pp. 219-222., V. 22. 2 See supra p. 75. 3 IA., XIV, pp. 8-10. Lines 6-II and 17-18. 4 lbid. 5 Ibid.
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