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that Vanarāja might have been born at that place and thus all the credit of foundation of the city might have been given to him.
On the other hand, if we accept the traditional age of Vanarāja i.e., 109 years, we should then assume that at the time of the Arab attack at Pañcāsara, Vanarāja must have been near about 43 years and lived on with his father. At that time, perhaps, they might have survived from the sweeping attack of the Arabs, but when his father was slain by Nāgabhata I, he might have led a life of an outlaw against the reigning power. In that case all the events relating to the birth of Vanarāja would be regarded as mere myth. On the whole, these arguments regarding the early date of the Cāvaņā are based on mere hypothesis and we have no documentary evidence for it. But about the last date of this family we have an epigraphical evidence. The Sambhara stone inscription of Jayasimha Siddharāja states that at the expiry of 998 years from Vikrama, Mūladeva came to the crest of the earth in the Caulukya dynasty. The Vicāraśreni gives us V.E. 1017 as the last limit of the Cāvadā reign, and as the accession date of the Caulukya Mūlarāja.” From these two statements, it appears that while the Sāmbhara inscription of Jayasimha Siddharāja records the date of Mūlarāja's birth, 998 A.D., the Vicäraśreni states the year of his accession which according to it is V.E. 1017.
The following is the dynastic tree of the Cāvadās:--
Jayasekhara
Vanarāja
Yogarāja
Ratnāditya
Vairisimha
Kșemarāja
Cámunda
Rāhada or Ghāghada
Bhūvada
1 TA., 1929, pp. 234-36. 2 JSS., II, No. 4, p. 9.
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