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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Jesala with the Guhila prince Jaitrasimha and Jaitramalla with the Mālava prince Jaitugideva (1239-43 A.D.), both of them being contemporaries. As regards the conflict with the prince of Guriara, we are informed by the Hammira-mada-mardana that in the joint effort of Viradhavala Caulukya against the Turuşkas the Mewar king Jayatala could not join on account of the pride of his valour. The reference to the struggle with the princes of Maru and Jāngala indicates that he must have fought with the successors of the Cāhamāna Pệthvīrāja II and his brother Harirāja. The Abu Acaleśvara temple inscription of Samarasimha dated V.E. 13422 informs us that Jaitrasimha destroyed the Cāhamāna of Nadol, most probably the Jāvālipura Cāhamāna Udayasimha who is said to have possessed Nadol also. The war with the lord of Mlecchas may be confirmed by the statement of the Hammiramada-mardana, which describes in detail the invasion of the territories of Jayatala the lord of Mewar by the Turuskaviras under Milicchīkāra. The late Pt. Ojha pointed out this Milicchikāra to be identical with the Sultan Iltutmash (1211-36 A.D.) who bore the title of Amir Shikār.3 The Cirwă inscription referring to this war states that Pamparāja, a son of Yogarāja, the Talāra appointed by Padmasimha at Nāgadraha, was killed when that city was destroyed by the soldiers of the Suratrāņa.4 It seems that both the Jain authors of the above-noted work and the inscription refer to the same invasion. The Hammira-mada-mardana, however, shows that this prince of Mewar could not have been defeated by the Turuskas. We have elsewhere discussed, on the basis of the Cirwā inscription, a struggle of Jaitrasimha with Tribhuvanapāla Caulukya.
These struggles naturally indicate that Jaitrasimha was a powerful ruler and ruled for a considerable period of time.
Tejasimha: Tejasimha was the son and successor of Jaitrasimha of whose reign we have three dated Jain records.
The first is a colophon from the Jain MS. named the Śrāvaka Pratikramana-sūtra Cürni bearing the date V.E. 1317. It was written at Āghāta by Kamalacandra, disciple of Rāmacandra in the prosperous
1 See infra, Chapter, IX, II, the Caulukyas of Gujarāta. 2 HIG., III, No. 252. p. 71 ff. 3 HR., II, p. 467. 4 WZKM., XXI, p. 157, V. 16. 5 See infra, Chapter, IX, II, the Caulukyas of Gujarāta. 6 Ibid. 7 SJGM., XVIII, p. 126.
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