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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Jain MS named Upadeśapada-ţikā, dated V.E. 1212, informs us that the work was composed in the prosperous reign of "Samastarājāvalivirä jita-paramabhattāraka-mahārājādhirāja Vigraharājadeva."1 This shows that he was a powerful monarch. Our Bijolia inscription ascribes to him a number of campaigns which he won. The verses from 20 to 22 refer to his victories thus:
"Sajjana, the only wicked person on earth, took his way towards the home of Kștānta (the god of death); and Kuntapāla, the keeper of lance, came to a state of utter lancelessness. He due to his resentment made Jāvālipur, the city of flames; Pallikā, an insignificant village; and Naddula like a bed of reeds. He made his fame to take rest on each street of towns and on each roof of dwellings, which was fatigued due to the capture of Dhillik, and was lagging behind owing to the acquisition of Asikā."2
Sajjana of the above description has been identified with the dandädhipati Sajjanah, governor of Saurāştra in the time of Jayasimha and Kumārapāla. This reminds one of the hostility between Kumārapāla and Vigraharāja, who must have avenged the defeat of his father Arņorāja by Kumārapāla noted above, by killing the governor Sajjana, who was quite old at that time. Kuntapāla has been identified with the Paramāra prince of Kirāļu by that name, whom, according to the Mahanota Naiņisi, Kirtipāla, son of Alhana, a feudatory of Kumārapāla, defeated." Kuntapāla was thus a contemporary of Alhaņa and Vigraharāja. Vigraharāja is said to have burnt his city Jāvālipur (Jallor). Pallikā of the inscription is identical with modern Pāli in Jodhpur.Naddūla is modern Nadola which at that time was a capital of the Cāhamāna prince Alhana, a feudatory of Kumārapāla. His allegiance to Kumārapāla must have caused the indignation to Vigraharāja who devastat
1 SJM., XXIII, p. 107. २ कृतान्तपथसजोऽभूत् सजनो सजनोभुवः। वैकुतं कुन्तपालोऽगाह्यतो वै कुन्तपालकः॥ जावालिपुरं ज्वालापुरं कृता पलिकापि पल्लीव । नड्वलतुल्यं रोषान्नद्दलं येन शौर्येण ॥ प्रतोल्यां च बलभ्यां च येन विश्रामितं यशः। ढिल्लिकाग्रहणश्रान्तमाशिकालाभलभितम् ।। 3 EI., XXVI, p. 94; see also supra p. 133. 4 Ibid., p. 94. 5 Ibid. * See infra, Chapter on the Caulukyas of Gujarata.
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