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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
or Pūad in other works, was murdered by his sister's son.1 The Vicāraśreni is, however, silent on this point. The Kumārapala-carita of Jayasimhasüri confirms the view.?
The Vadanagara praśasti of Kumārapäla dated 1152 A.D. informs us that the Cäpotkațas were overthrown by Mūlarāja.3
According to a verse quoted in the Prabandha-cintāmani, “this kingdom of the Gurjaras, even from the time of king Vanarāja, was established with the Jain mantras (counsels), its foes indeed has no cause to rejoice."4 It is a question as to how much of this claim is historically correct. The official religion of the kings was, no doubt, Saivism and Sāktism (they built many temples of these deities), but the influential persons in the state, the rich merchants like Ninnaya, his son Lāhara, chief-minister Jāmba etc. were probably most of them Jains. Thus the Jains occupied high posts in the state. So, from this point of view, the claim may be regarded valid at least partially. But as far as the political life of Căpotkațas is concerned there is nothing characteristically Jain.
II. THE CAULUKYAS (SOLANKIS) OF GUJARATA. Unlike the other dynasties we have copious Jain material for the political and social history of the Caulukyas of Gujarāta. The Jain writers of Gujarāta were more careful to record almost every incident of this family. It seems that they had developed greater historical sense during this age. The period of nearly three centuries and a half (961-1304 A.D.) over which the members of this dynasty ruled, is regarded as the most flourishing period of the Jain religion and its literature. The Jain writers were mostly associated with the state and government of that period and the information we get from them naturally presents before us a true picture of the age as far as it goes.
The capital of this family from the very beginning (from Mülarāja) up to the end, was Aņahilapāțaka,5 sometimes known as Anahillapura or Anhilapäțaņa also. Before the establishment of the Caulukyas, Cāvadas were ruling there, but they were the master of only a small principality.
1 PC., p. 16: fandt HIGOAT OTT Á HERE HI ya 40 2 Canto I, V. 30, p. I: Hraft IGS GATE 27: Tear FETE FESTETT PATCI 3 El., I, p. 293. 4 SJGM., I, p. 13: TTTTTH THE FIFTRATI
जैनैस्तु स्थापितं मंत्रैस्तदद्वेषी नैव नन्दति। 5 DV., Canto I, V. 4: 11 W AlfaTVETTE HI
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