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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Kumärapāla always kept Someśvara near himself. Someśvara with his own sword cut off the head of the Rājā of Konkana during Kumārapāla's invasion of that country. Someśvara married Karpūradevi, daughter of the king of Tripuri.' The Hammira-mahākāvya also mentions this marriage.? From them were born the princes Pșthvīrāja and Harirāja. After the death of Pșthvīrāja II the ministers brought him to the Sapādalaksa country and placed him on the throne. The Bijolia epigraph also appears to support the fact of passing his youth in the Caulukya court by saying that he obtained his paternal kingdom through the grace of Someśvara* (Someśvarāllabdharājyah), the famous god in Saurāșțra, who was the tutelary deity of the Caulukya princes. This inscription, however, does not mention any political event of his reign except that he earned through valour the viruda of Pratāpalankeśvara and that he with a desire to gain heaven endowed Pārśvanātha on the bank of the Revā with a village named Revaņā in śāsana (absolute charity). It is worth noticing that this prince as well as his predecessor both donated a village each to this god. The Bijolia inscription is dated in the year V.E. 1226 when the erection of the temple was finished. It was perhaps the first year of the reign of Someśvara. Thus, Pșthvīrāja II's donation must have been made when the image was already installed and his successor Someśvara made his donation when the deity was enshrined in the temple.
We know about the duration of his reign from his inscriptions which extend from V.E. 1226 to 1234 (c. 1169-1177 A.D.), but the Prabandhakośa mentions V.E. 1236 (A.D. 1179) as the date of accession of his son and successor Pșthvīrāja.' He, therefore, might have ruled upto that year.
Prthvīrāja III (1179-1192 A.D.): The Pythvīrāja-vijaya says: "So before leaving this world he (Someśvara) had appointed the Devī or the queen (Karpūradevi) to protect his son in his childhood." This shows that Prthvīrāja was minor at the time of the death of Someśvara. According to the Hammīra-mahākāvya, when Prthvīrāja had acquired proficiency in
1 JRAS., 1913, p. 275. 2 Canto II, V. 72. 3 JRAS., 1913, p. 275. 4 V. 26. 5 V. 27. 6 V. 28. → SJGM., I, p. 134: Ceas: H. 3736 TET! S JRAS., 1913, p. 277.
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