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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
who was named as Vanarāja. Bhūvada grew fond of Gujarat but was induced to return to his capital under pressure from his general."'1 The Dharmāran ya-mähātmya supplies some more details:
“When seven hundred years had elapsed after Vikrama, Āma, the ruler of Kanauj, drove out the king of Khețakapura, then the capital of Gujarāta, and occupied the land. At that time, Dhruvapata, a descendant of the Solar race, ruled over Valabhi. Ama gave one daughter in marriage to the king of Valabhi and another to the king of Lāța. The ruler of Kanauj converted both his sons-in-law to Buddhism and gave Gujarat to his daughter in dowry. It was, therefore, annexed to Valabhi. The Brahmanas, thereupon, left the country and sought refuge with Jayasekhara of Pañcāsara. The king of Valabhi, therefore, invited his fatherin-law Ama to attack Jayasekhara, which he did. Jayasekhara met heroic death in the battle. Akşațā, the queen of Jayasekhara, was sent to a forest, where the Brāhmaṇas gave her asylum and forecasted a royal future for her son."2
From all these stories it comes out that the prabandhas and other literature are not unanimous about the parentage of Vanarāja. But it is certain that Vanarāja was connected with Pañcāsara in the earlier part of his life.
Certain Problems: In order to discover the historical truth in these legends, certain points require elucidation. According to the Prabandhacintāmani noted above Gujarāta was a part of Kānyakubja country at the time of Vanarāja's birth. And accoring to the Ratnamālā, which Forbes follows, king Jayasekhara was slain by Solankee king Bhūvada of Kalyāņakațaka. Our prabandha writers know two Kalyāna-kațakas as one in the Kānyakubja country and the other in the Deccan. They, however, never know any of the Kalyāna-katakas in the sense of the capital of Solankee Rājā Bhūvada. Certain scholars conjecture that Bhūvaļa may have been a corrupted form of Bhuvanāśraya, a name given to the Cālukya king Vijayaditya of Bādāmi (A.D. 696-733) and by Kalyāņa the author, undoubtedly, means Kalyāņa of Deccan, the capital of later Cālukyas. But it was founded by the year A.D. 1053. It, therefore, seems that the writer of the Ratnamālā is involved in an anachronism. Since, according to the Navasāri plates,
1 Rāsamālā, I, pp. 26-36.
2 The legends are mentioned briefly by V. K. Shastri in Forbes Rāsamāla (G. Ed.), I, 34.
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