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THE DYNASTIES OF CENTRAL INDIA
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Several verses are found in the Saṁskst as well as the Prākst literature which were composed to mourn the sad demise of Vākpati Muñja. They are reminiscent of the fame, prosperity and honour of this great king.
Sindhurāja: Merutunga in his Prabandha-cintamani states that after the death of Muñja, Bhoja was placed on the throne: "Then the ministers in the country of Mālava, hearing that event, placed Bhoja--the son of Muñja's brother, on the throne." A contemporary Jain account, Tilakamañjarī, states that "having found fit to govern the kingdom Muñja himself annointed Bhoja." But in the light of the other contemporary references the above statements do not seem to be true. Padmagupta, a court poet of Sindhurāja writes in his Navasāhasänka-carita that 'Muñja placed the world in Sindhurāja's arm which was marked by scars of bow-string. This fact is also confirmed by the Udayapur prasasti.The Jain inscription, known as Kalvan plates of Yaśovarman of the time of Bhoja, while giving the succession from Siyaka to Bhoja refers to Sindhurāja as the successor of Vākpatirāja (Muñja): 'Devotee of the feet of Väkpatirājadeva was Sindhurāja who had covered all the boundaries upto the sea by his fame, which was praised by the enemies, conquered in the several fierce battles."5 All this shows that he actually succeeded his brother Muñja.
It appears that Sindhurāja hardly had the personality or ability of his brother though Padmagupta highly praised him. We, however, have certain Jain accounts of Sindhurāja's war with the neighbouring Caulukya kings. The famous Vadanagar prasasti of Kumārapāla composed by a Jain poet Śrīpāla states: “Sindhurāja fled away together with his own elephants that were cowed by the smell of rut of Cāmundarāja's elephant inhaling even from afar." It denotes that Sindhurāja advanced on Pätana but ultimately withdrew. A quite later Jain writer Jayasimhasūri mentions in his Kumārapāla
1 SGM., I., p. 25: 374 A usd guarafa aflata THT TTFUS भिषिच्यत्।
? See supra p. 88. 3 NC., XI., 98: gť ATRITT ureaatfata: 1
मौवी किणाङ्कवत्यस्य पृथ्वी दोणि निवेशिता ॥ * EI., I., pp. 235, 237, V, 16.
5 EI., XIX, p. 61: eft alifaria Terera: 3 .... TAUTETTEJA: etc.
EI., I., pp. 296-305: renta a 91416 TAETISIEN.... for TTSTETT नष्टः क्षोणीपतियथास्य यशसां गन्धोऽपि निर्वासितः।
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