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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
on the throne of Anahilapātana they paid him their homage. Though Vikramasimha disowned his allegiance to Kumārapāla, he also got at the end his due punishment. We see several rapid changes and transference of power after Kumārapāla on the throne of Anahilapātana, but we never see any change in the allegiance of the members of this line.
Dhārāvarşa, the long-lived feudatory who survived his four sovereign kings, was the most faithful man who served all of them with equal vigour. His noble brother Prahladanadeva was a man of various attainments.
Their territory was situated between the two powerful kingdomsSapādalaksa and Anahilavāda, therefore, there was no opportunity to extend it. They waged several wars on behalf of their sovereign kings with the other powerful kings like Přthvīrāja and Sihāb-ud-din but they never sustained any reverse. A member of this branch, Yaśodhavala, led a successful expedition to the distant Konkan. Perhaps they maintained a good military force.
This family held its sway over the Mt. Arbud for more than three centuries of the Christian era with certain gaps. During this period the territory came to be called Aștādaśasati province whose other name was Āsosittana according to Kinsaria stone inscription. They made the region quite prosperous.
It, however, appears from their inscriptions as well as literary sources that they ever linked their fate with their sovereign kings, the Caulukyas, and with their fall at last they disappeared totally. This small but promising family has a unique position in the history of India.
The genealogy of this branch according to the Jain sources may be constructed as follows:
Dhūmarāja - Kānhadadeva
Adbhuta – Krsnarāja Dharanīvarāha Devarāja (alias Mahīpāla)
Dhandhuka Kışņarāja II
a gap of fifty years
Dhruvabhata and others
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