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THE DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA
The Holkari inscriptions No. 23 and 33 dated 968 and 965 A.D. respectively, refer to two Marasimha's captains, Sudrakayya and Goggiyamma, as Ujjayinibhupaigas. We know from the Harasola inscription that the north Gujarāta and Mälava were ruled by Siyaka Paramāra during this period. It seems that formerly he was appointed by Kṛṣṇa III to rule those provinces but, due to certain favourable circumstances he thought to become independent. The above references indicate that Krsna III had led an expedition to suppress Siyaka. Thus an intense hostility was roused and we learn from the Päiyalacchi of Dhanapala that (in retaliation) Siyaka sacked the city of Mänyakheta and looted the wealth (of Khottiga, the successor of Kṛṣṇa III).2
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It seems now plausible that the consequent hostility between the two families and other subsequent wars between them in later times which created bitterness and disgust, may be regarded as the supreme reason for suppressing the origin from the southern Răştrakūtas."
We find the Paramāra families ruling over various regions of Western India but from the Jain sources we know only of the Paramāras of Malava, Arbuda, Banswārā, and Kirāḍu. They will be described in different chapters according to their regions.
PARAMARAS OF MALAVA
From Dhanapala's Tilakamañjari as well as from the literary and epigraphic sources of the Paramāras we learn that an eponymous Paramāra was the first man of the dynasty but from Harasola plates, Bapparāja appears to be the historical person.
The Tilakamanjari mentions Vairisimha (II) as the first historical personage. Speaking about him the poet Dhanapala says: "he was a parasu to cut the creeper in the form drawing lines upon the check of the wives of the enemies and was like a wall of shore of four-seas to break the teeth of strong military elephants." Then he states that Vairisimha was succeeded by his son Sriharṣa or Siyaka who was the abode of Sri.5
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1 EI., XIX, p. 287.
2 V. 276 : मालवणरिन्दधाणीए लूडिए मण्णखेडम्मि ।
3 DHNI., Pt. II, p. 842.
4 Kävyamālā, LXXXV, p. 5. V. 40:
तस्मिन्नभूद्रिपुकलत्रकपोलपत्र । वल्लीवितानपरशुपरमार वंशः ॥ श्रीवैरिसिंह इति दुर्धर सैन्यदन्ति । दन्ताग्रभिन्न चतुरर्णवकूलभित्तिः ॥ [s] Ibid, V. 41 तत्राभूद्रसतिः श्रियामपरया श्रीहर्ष इत्याख्यया भूपः खर्वितवैरिगर्वमहिमा श्री सीयकः ।
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