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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Somasimha: The same inscription, when read with another inscription of the same temple and of the same year, reveals that in 1287 V.E. (c. 1230 A.D.) Somasimha, the son of Dhārāvarsa, was still ruling at Candrävati as feudatory of Bhima II. It is said in the inscription in the form of praise that Somasimha derived the merit of bravery from his father and learning from his uncle and charitability from both. The two colophons of the Jain MSS give two dates of his reign. The colophon of the Kulakaprakaraṇa written at Candrāvatī which bears the date V.E, 1279 states him simply Śrī Somasimha. But the colophon of the Rşabhadeva-carita, which was written at Prahladanapura in the prosperous reign of Somasimha, bearing the date V.E. 1289, gives him the titles: Samastarājāvalī-samalankrtamchāra jādhirāja.
Kānhadadeva: His son and successor was Krsnarāja (III), whose name was also Kānhadadeva according to the other Jain inscription of the same date.
Visaladeva: Our two Jain inscriptions, one from the village Dattāṇī near Mt. Abu and another from the Vimala temple at Mt. Arbud, inform us that Candrāvati was still in possession of this branch.
The Dattāņi village inscription, engraved on a pillar of a dilapidated Jain temple, records that "In the prosperous reign of the illustrious Sārangadeva (Caulukya) when Mahārājādhirāja Visaladeva was prosperously ruling at Candrāvati in V.E. 1345 on Vaisakha 8th of the bright fortnight on Friday, Pratāpaśrī and Śrī Hemadeva of the Paramāra clan bestowed two fields for the expenses of lord Pārsvanātha.?
The Vimala temple inscription is found engraved on a stone in the outer wall of the temple No. 13 in the corridor, at Mt. Arbud. It states that in V.E. 1350 in prosperous reign of (so many titles) illustrious
Ibid., V. 40: erragatsi wala na fregat :1
पितृतः शौर्य विद्यां पितृव्यकाद्दानमुभयतो जगृहे ।। 2 Ibid. 3 Prasasti-sangraha ( Ahmedabad), Pt. I, p. 83, No. 132. 4 SJGM., XVIII, p. 118, No. 153. 5 Ibid., pp. 211-16, V. 42: Tata T: ftę,sor: itsura atset
6 El., VIII, p. 206: t raatara 15 afgaa aur TT TETTES....!
7 Arbuda-prācīna Jain Lekha-sandoha, Pt. V, pp. 21-22.
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