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was regarded by the scholars as a matrimonial alliance to end the hostility between the two neighbouring dynasties.
The Duyāśraya-kāvya and the subsequent Jain works record that the hostilities with the Caulukyas seems to have broken out afresh with the accession of Kumārapāla. This war has been referred to in detail elsewhere. The Dvyāśraya-kāvya mentions that Arņorāja brought peace by giving his daughter Jalhaņā to Kumārapāla.
The Pșthvīrāja-vijaya states that he also completely vanquished the Musalmans (Mātangas) who came across the desert and in order to purify the place where the Musalmans had fallen, the king constructed a lake and filled it with the river Candra.? The Hammira-mahākāvya calls him Anala and says that he dug a tank, a merit to the forest of Puşkara.
Arnorāja's successors: The Bijolia inscription mentions Vigraharăja as a son and successor of Arņorāja but he does not seem to be an immediate successor of his father. The Pịthviraja-vijaya refers to Sudhavā, the queen of Arņorāja, giving birth to three sons, who were different from one another as the three Gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas). The name of the first son is, however, not mentioned there. The poet simply states about him that he rendered to his father the same service as Bhțgu's son Paraśurāma had rendered to his mother and went out like the wick of a lamp leaving behind an evil smell. This denotes that the eldest son must have killed his father. His name seems to be Jagadeva as referred to by the two Jain works Hammira-mahākāvya and Prabandha-kośa which mention him as the successor of Analadeva and predecessor of Visaladeva (Vigraharāja IV).? He must have occupied the throne for some time. Except his eulogy nothing else is mentioned about him in the Jain works. He was succeeded by his younger brother Vigraharāja.
Vigraharāja (1153-1164 A.D.): The inscriptions of Jagadeva's reign show that he ruled from V.E. 1210 to 1220.8 The colophon of a
1 See infra, Chapter on the Caulukya of Gujarata. 2 DV., Canto, XIX, Vs. 1-60. 3 JRAS., 1913, p. 274. 4 Canto II, V. 51. 5 El., XXVI, pp. 84-112, V. 18. • PV., Canto VI, pp. 197 ff.; JRAS., 1913, p. 274. 7 Canto II, V. 52; SJGM., VI, p. 113. 8 DHNI., II, pp. 1074-76.
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