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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
The sixth epigraph has been found at Vāghina (Sirohi). It bears the date V.E. 1359 (1302 A.D.) in the prosperous reign of Maharāja Sāmantasimha. It records several small gifts at the festival of procession of Lord Säntinātha at the village Vāghsīnā.
From these Jain inscriptions we, however, do not get any substantial information of political importance about his reign. They also do not throw any light on the relationship between Cāciga and Samantasimha. Moreover, they also do not mention the name of his father. The Prabandha-kośa, however, mentions that Sämantapāla, Anantapāla and Trilokasimha, the three brothers of the same mother, were the sons (Dāyāda) of Udayasimha of Jāvālipura.” If Samantapāla of this Jain work be taken to be identical with Sämantasimha of the inscription we may say that Sämantasimha was the son of Udayasimha and thus a brother of Cāciga. We know his early date V.E. 1339 (1282 A.D.) from a Bhinmäl inscription which is other than the Jain one. Thus, it seems that he ruled from V.E. 1339 to 1359, a period of 20 years.
According to the Purātana-prabandha-sangraha his son Kānhaçadeva succeeded him. This Kānhadadeva can be identified with Kanerdeo, the Raja of Jālor who was a feudatory of Ala’ud-din Khalji (A.D. 1296-1316).
Thus the Cahamāna king known from the Jain sources are as follows.
1 Ibid., 267, No. 959. 2 SJGM., VI, p. 105. 3 BG., I, Pt. I, pp. 483-84, No. XIV. * SJGM., II, p. 102. $ EI., XI, p. 77; TF. Brigg's trans. Vol. I, p. 370 ff.
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