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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
Mūlarāja is also credited with having defeated one Dharanivarāha. A Jaina inscription known as the Bijāpura stone inscription of the Rästrakūța Dhavala informs us that "Mūlarāja had a powerful army and was intoxicated with pride" and when Dharaṇīvarāha was attacked by him, he sought shelter with Dhavala. I have elsewhere identified Dharanivaräha with the Paramāra ruler of Arbuda.
From the above descriptions we, however, may easily draw a picture of the political situation of India in that period. Mūlaräja's reign falls in that time when the Paramāras, the Cahamānas, the Calukyas and the Guhilotas were struggling to obtain mastery over Western India. Mūlarāja, while struggling with these powers, also consolidated his kingdom to some extent. Ultimately he died in 996 A.D., having ruled for fifty-five years. 3
From the epigraphic records as well as from the Jain chronicles, it appears that Mülarāja was a great devotee of Somanātha and he built several temples of that god in his kingdom. According to the Prabandhacintamani4 and Sukrta-samkirtana) he used to go every Monday to Someśvara Pațđana. It is said that he built three famous temples: the first Muñjaladevaprāsād in honour of his grandfather the second Tripuruşaprāsād to perpetuate the memory of three brothers Rāji, Dādhaka and Bīja who were the Adipurusa i.e. the original persons of the dynasty, and the third Mülarajavasahikä on his own name. As to some dignified personages of the reign of Mülarāja we heard from the Dvyā śraya-kāvya that Jambaka and Jehula were his chief ministers, and from the colophon of the Neminähacariu we learn that one Vīra of the Prāgvāta family was a minister in charge of the Tankaśāla, that is, the mint, where coins were made bearing the image of Laksmī.? The great ascetic Kanthadi and his disciple Vayajalladeva referred to in the Prabandha-cintamani may also be mentioned as two opposite types of Yogis who represent peculiar religious attitudes which affected the religious consciousness of Gujaräta.
Cāmunda, Vallabharāja and Durlabharaja : (996 A.D.-1022 A.D.): Mūlarāja was succeded by his son Cāmundarája. The Dvyaśraya-kāvya states
1 EI., X, PP. 17-24, V. 12. 2 See supra p. 187, Chapter on the Paramāras of Arbuda. 3 See supra, p. 226. 4 SJGM., I, p. 17: faci fachant statica na arut....I 5 Canto II, p. 10 : 4577417: a HR 37: Athare sforit att:
Canto II, V. 56.
? Sanatkumāra-caritram, section from Haribhadra's Nemināha-cariu, ed. by H. Jacobi, Introduction, VI. ff.
S SJGM., I, P. 18.
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