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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N, INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Mänavasimha known from another inscription found at the temple of Acaleśvara of the same place bearing the date V.E. 1377. Both these Abu inscriptions supply us a genealogical list of Mahanasimha. His son and successor was Pratāpamalla who was succeeded by his grandson Vījada. Vijada is said to have founded the Devadā branch of the Cãhamānas. The Jain inscription from Abu states that Vījada was the master of Marusthalīmandala (Marwar). The same authority informs us that Vijada had three sons, but the Acaleśvara inscription from Abu informs us that he had four sons, Lāvanyakarņa, Lundha, Laksmana and Lūņavarman. When Lāvanyakarna expired he was succeeded by his brother Lundha, who is said, in the Abu inscription of Vimala temple, to have defeated the powerful enemies and established his seat of power at Abu and with the help of his two sons ruled over that territory. We have shown elsewhere on the basis of this statement that Lundha and his two sons turned out the Paramāras of Candrāvati.
We have, by way of introducing Mahanasimha, given some introduction of his successors. The Devadā branch established by them flourished later than the thirteenth century. So we need not discuss it here. . Mahanasinha of the Abu Jain inscription seems to be the eldest brother of Udayasimha and possibly preceded him as a ruler of Jālor. We have no other information about Mahanasimha from the Jain sources. Udayasimha succeeded the throne of Jālor about V.E. 1262 (c. 1205). No dated Jain inscription of his reign has yet been discovered but from the literary sources of Jains, it appears that he enjoyed a long reign of more than 40 years. A colophon of a Jain MS. of the Nirbhayabhīma-vyāyoga, composed by the poet Rāmacandra written in the reign of Mahārājakula Udayasimhadeva, gives us one of his dates which is V.E. 1306 (c. 1243 A.D.). Jinadattasūri also wrote his Viveka-vilăsa in the reign of Udayasimha but he does not give us any date.?
The Sundhā hill inscription enumerates several places over which Udayasimha ruled. They are, Näddūla (Nadol), Jāvālipura (Jālor), Mändavya
1 EI, IX, p. 794. 2 V. 16. 3 Vs. 20-23 • See infra Chapter VIII, section on the Paramāras of Candrävati. 5 Bhinmal stone inscription: BG., I, pp. 474-75, No. III. 6 SJGM., XVIII, p. 124, N. 202. ? EI., XI, p. 76: Bhandarkar's Search for Sanskrit MSS., for 1883-84, p. 156.
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