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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
carita that 'Camundaräja killed Sindhuräja in the battle'.' This isolated reference, however, has no support. The commentary of Duydiraya-kävya, which is the earlier literary authority, states that on the way of the pilgrimage to Varanasi, Câmundaraja had been deprived of the royal insignia by the people of Malava, thereupon he returned back to Anahilapattana and ordered his son Vallabha to invade Mälava country. His son did it but, after investing the fortification of Dhārā, he died of smallpox. Since Sindhuraja was the contemporary of Camundarāja, these events must have occurred in his reign.
His Reign Period: How long Sindhurāja ruled over Malava we do. not know from the Jain sources. It has been referred to by a Jain work. named Subhasita-ratna-sandoka of Amitagati that the last date of Muñja was 994 A.D., and we have assigned the year of his death, approximately, 995 A.D. We have not yet come across any dates of the reign of Sindhuraja. The latest date of his son and successor, Bhoja, known from a published grant found at Modesã, is 1011 A.D. The Jain writer Merutunga gives 'fifty-five years, seven months and three days,' as the period of the reign of Bhoja. The earliest known date of Bhoja's successor Jayasimha is 1055 A.D. In view of this, Bhoja's succession might have occurred in 999 A.D. The description and date of the Modesã grant give more probability to this year. In the light of the above chronology we may assign only three or four years. (c. 995-998 A.D.) to the reign of Sindhuräja.
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Bhoja:
His Date of Accession discussed: Bhoja, the magnificent king of India, came on the throne of Ujjayani or Dhārā in the prime of his life. The question of the early limit of his reign has been considered as a perplexed one by scholars. Bühler, on the basis of the then available data, has pointed out that Bhoja fought with the Calukya Jayasimha of Deccan some time between 1011 A.D. and 1019 A.D. As Padmagupta, who probably composed his work in c. 1005 A.D., does not refer to Bhoja, he thereupon thought that Bhoja at that time had not reached the age of 16, the Indian age of majority. He, therefore,
1 KC. Canto I, V. 32:
राजे चामुण्डराजोऽथ यश्चामुण्डावरोद्धुरः । सिन्धुरेन्द्रमिवोन्मत्तं सिन्धुराजं मृधेऽवधीत् ॥ DV. Canto 7, V. 31, 43 and commentary on them.
See supra p. 93. BV., V, pp. 37-40.
5 SJGM., I., p. 22:
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