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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJASTHANA
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Asarāja: After the death of Yojaka, his brother Asarāja, who was also called Asarāja, Āsvarāja or Asvaka, succeeded him.' We have fortunately two dated Jain inscriptions of his reign from Sevādi (Jodhpur).
The inscription number one is found engraved on the lintel of the doorway of Mahavira temple. It mentions Asvarāja as the Mahārājādhirāja and his son Katukarāja as Yuvarāja. It gives the reigning year V.E. 1167 corresponding to the year 1110 A.R.? The other one has been found carved on the lintel of another cell in the front corridor of the temple of Mahāvīra at Sevādi. It gives the names of the predecessors of Katukarāja from Anahila; then his son Jinda and grandson Aśvarāja. Kațukarāja is recorded there to have granted annually 8 drammas to the Jain Thallaka of Sānderaka gaccha for the worship of Santinātha in V.E. 1172 (c. 1115 A.D.). The temple is said to be situated in the Bhukti of Kațukarāja.
These inscriptions show that Aśvarāja's son Kațukarāja as a yuvarā ja helped him in the government."
The Sundhā hill inscription informs us that Asarāja gave assistance to Siddharāja, no doubt Caulukya emperor Jayasimha Siddharāja, in the land of Mālava." This help was rendered perhaps in the struggle with Yaśovarman. His another record known as Bāli stone inscription is dated in the victorious reign of Jayasimhadeva in V.E. 1200 and refers to Aśvaka as subsisting on his lotus feet. This shows that he was a feudatory of Jayasimha Siddharāja (c. 1094-1144 A.D.). From his inscriptions it appears that he ruled from V.E. 1167 to 1200 (1130-1143 A.D.) and enjoyed a long reign. It should be observed here that all the three inscriptions of his reign were discovered around Bāli, in the Jodhpur division.
Ratna pūla: It, however, appears from the discovery of the Sevādi grant of Ratnapāla dated V.E. 1176 (c. 1119 A.D.) that his long reign must have been interrupted by another claimant of the throne of Naddūla. This grant records the genealogy of Ratnapāla from Lakşmana down to Pșthvi
1 EI, IX, p. 66 ff., V. 4. 2 EL., XI, pp. 28-30; P. C. Nahar, Jain Lekha-sangraha, 1, p. 226. 3 Ibid., pp. 30-32; Jain Lekha-sangraha, I, p. 226. 4 V. 26: t3ITITE THT HAA....
साहाय्यं मालवानां यदसिकृतं वीक्ष्य सिद्धाधिराजः। 5 EI., IX, pp. 32-33. & EI., XI, pp. 304-13.
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