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letters and arms, Someśvara installed him on the throne and himself retiring from the world died in the practice of the Yoga.
His inscriptions give us dates from V.E. 1236 to 1245 (c. 1179-1189), but the two Jain works, the Vividha-tirtha-kalpa and the Prabandha-kośa, state that this hero died in V.E. 1248 (1192 A.D.).? The period, therefore, may be assigned to him from V.E. 1236 to 1248.
The Jain sources have recorded only two of his struggles, the one with the Candella king Paramardi and the other with Sihāb-ud-din Ghori.
The Prabandha-cintīmaņi states that he defeated the king Paramardi and made him fugitive. We have shown elsewhere that this statement of the Jain author has been corroborated by the Madanpur inscriptions of Prthvirāja which state that he had invaded and plundered a large portion of thc Candella territory beyond the Betwa.The Jain prabandhas also refer to the enmity between Pșthvīrāja and Jayacandra but they have not stated any cause behind it."
The war with the Sultan of Gazani is amply described by the Prabandhacintāmani, Purátana-prabandha-sangraha and the Hammira-mahākāvya, The Prabandha-cintāmani states:
"Pịthvīrāja repulsed from his city thrice seven times the king of the Mlecchas, but nevertheless that very king came for the twentysecond time to the capital of Pșthyīrāja and encamped there with his formidable army.” It is said that a hero by name Tunga entered the camp of the enemy through a stratagem, killed the enemy and caused his army to be fled. It is further stated that the son of that Mleccha king remembering his father's feud invaded the Sapādalakşa country but he was driven away and Pșthvīrāja went in pursuit of him. A minister named Someśvara tried to dissuade him, but the king, erroneously supposing that he favoured the enemy, cut off his ears. Somes.
i Canto II, V. 77.
2 SJGM., X, p. 45: FREMT 376 () WHEE 877891 FESTTTF5989 PERCE@rafa TIETSTOUT CEVI I Ibid., VI, p. 134., ait: 3786 a: 1
3 See supra p. 69; Merutunga, in his Prabandha-cintāmaņi, makes confusion between Paramardi, who is identical with the Cālukya Vikramāditya VI of the Daccan, and the king of this name of the Candella dynasty. He associates Paramardi with Siddharāja Jayasimha in one place, and connects him with Pșthviraja elsewhere. (SJGM., I, p. 116).
4 ASR., XX, No. 9, and XXI. 5 See supra, p. 50 Chapter on the Gahadavālas.
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