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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
of Dhārā. Yaśovarman, being frightened, remained in the fort of Dhārā and closed all the gates and put sharpened arrows on them. Jayasimha with the help of an elephant by name Yaśahpataḥ broke open all the gates. Yasovarman fled from Dhārā. Jayasimha pursued him. "This Caulukya hero of renown, like unto a dancer, wielding his blade in battle, seized Mālava's field-fleeing monarch, who from Dhārā had fled.”
Merutunga gives us detailed description of the capture of Dhārā:
"The king started on an expedition to that country of Mālavas. There a war of twelve years' duration took place in which the king was victorious and he took this vow: 'I will not eat today until I have captured the fort of Dhārā'. The ministers and the foot soldiers killed the Paramāra Rajputas by five hundred at a time, but still were unable to fulfil the king's vow by the end of the day; so he had to fulfil it in an equivocal manner by breaking into Dhārā made of meal. Then the king was desirous of turning back and he revealed it to the minister Muñjāla. Muñjāla, at last, got ready a plan to break the fort. The king was informed. He led his army to the southern gate of the fort and reckless of the fact that the fort was hard to enter, he with the help of a mighty elephant named Yaśaḥpatala driven by mahut Sämala got broken the iron bar. The gates were then opened. But in this effort the elephant died and a temple of Ganapati was created in his memory in the village Vadasara. Siddharăja then captured Yaśovarman, established there his sovereignty and returned to Pāțana.?
This battle of Dhārā must have been won before the year V.E. 1192 (c. 1135 A.D.) because a colophon of the Jain MS namely, the Nava pada laghuvrtti, informs us that at that time Jayasimha bore the title of Avantinātha. The Gālā grant,* dated V.E. 1193 (c. 1136 A.D.), confirms this fact. I DV., Canto 14. Vs. 12-18: STOFFD and a fanats
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7778श्रीजयसिंहदेवकल्याणविजयराज्ये एवं काले प्रवर्त्तमाने । . • 1A., X, pp. 158-180.
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