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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJDHANA
of Vimala temple, from whom the genealogy given in the record begins.1
The Vimala temple record states that Dhandhukarāja, lord of the town of Candrāvatī, was born in the family of Paramāra Kānhaçadeva.? This Dhandhuka, "averse from rendering homage to the (Caulukya) king Bhīma I (c. 1022-64 A.D.) and to escape from that anger, took refuge with king Bhoja, the lord of Dhārā (c. 999-1055 A.D.)." The inscription, after this statement, abruptly introduces the Prāgvāta Vimala, the Dandapati of Bhīma I at Arbuda, and refers to the building of a temple of Rsabha (yugādi bhart! yugādi Jina, Ādinātha) by him on the top of the mountain in V.E. 1088 (1031 A.D.), which seems to indicate that Vimala became the Caulukya governor of this region after ousting the Paramāra Dhandhuka who was probably the vassal of Bhoja. But the Vasantagadha inscription of Pūrņapāla shows that the Paramāras were not permanently ousted from the Abu region.
We have no information about Pūrņapāla in the Jain sources, but the Vasantagadha inscription dated V.E. 1099 (A.D. 1042) and a Bhadundā stone inscription dated V.E. 1102 (c. 1045 A.D.)4 inform us that he was ruling Arbuda Mandala during this period.
Pūrņapāla was possibly succeeded by Krsnarāja II. From the Bhinmāl stone inscription dated V.E. 1117 (c. 1060 A.D.), we know that he was a son of Dhandhuka. He, therefore, appears to be a brother of Pūrņapāla. The Jain sources are silent about him.
After him we have no history of this branch of the Paramāras for the next fifty years. We do not know what happened to them from the Jain sources. Then comes a Jain inscription to our rescue. The inscription was discovered in the Lūņa temple at Mt. Abu and is dated V.E. 1287 (A.D. 1230). It gives us the following genealogical list of these later Ābu Paramāras of the time of Bhima II (c. 1178-1241 A.D.).
1 EI, IX, p. 151, 155-56, V. 4, 2 Ibid., V. 5: T HOSATS: FIT: R E ITHI
चन्द्रावती पुरीशः समजनि वीरानगीधन्धुः।। 3 Ibid., V. 6: whither GET THETAT: FIFTTH: 1
नरेशरोषाच्च ततो मनखी धाराधिपं भोजनृपं प्रपेदे ।।
See also SJGM., II, pp. 51-52, Vimala-vasahikā-prabandha. 4 JBRAS., XXIII, p. 78 ff. 5 Bom. Gar., Pt. I, pp. 472-73. 6 EL., VIII, pp. 205-04, 208-19; see also Arbuda-prācina Jain Lekha
sandoha, Pt. II, pp. 92-109.
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