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from this that Camundarāja might have suffered from some foul sexual disease. The Prabandha-cintamani, however, attaches this anecdote of pilgrimage with Durlabharāja. It states:
"Being himself desirous of travelling to Banaras as he longed to perform devotions in a holy place, he reached the country of Mālava. There he was called upon by the king Muñja to give the umbrella and cowries and the other insignia of royalty, and to continue his journey in the dress of pilgrim or to fight his way through. When this message was delivered to him, he perceived that an obstacle to his religious resolution had arisen in his path and after impressing the circumstances in the strongest terms on king Bhima, he went to the holy place in the dress of a pilgrim and gained paradise. From that day forth their was rooted enmity between the kings of Gujarāta and Mälava.1
According to the A-MS of the Prabandha-cintamani, Srī Cāmundarāja built two temples presumably of Siva, one was known as Candanāthadeva prāsāda and the other Cāciņeśvara prāsāda. The second one might have been built to perpetuate the memory of his sister Cācinīdevi.2
Cāmundarāja was succeeded according to the Prabandha-cintamani by his eldest son Vallabharāja in V.E. 1065. This king after investing the fortress of Dhārā in the country of Mālava, died of small-pox. He acquired the titles "subduer of kings, as Siva subdued the god of Love (Raja-madanasanker ) and shaker of world (Jagajjampana). He reigned only for six months.3 The Vadanagar prasasti also mentions Vallabharāja as son and successor of Cămundarāja.4 The Muslim chroniclers like Abul-Fazl and Ali Muhammad Khān assign him a reign of six and seven months respectively.5 This support of Muslim tradition seems to indicate that the Jain chroniclers were right in giving a short reign to Vallabha. His war with the ruler of Mālava is also confirmed by the Vadanagar prasasti.6 The ruler of Mālava is probably to be identical with Bhoja (c. 999–1055 A.D.) the nephew of the Paramāra Muñja. The fact that he died so soon and was succeeded in the course of the same year by his brother Durlabha seems to explain the omission of his name in some of the later Caulukya inscriptions.
fatlar: : 1
I SJGM., I, p. 20 : 7a:qua Arvatah: yergatat 2 Ibid.: 31 sit r
.... 3 Ibid.: HE R STT TTED 4 EI., I, p. 296-305, V. 7. 5 AAK., II, p. 260; MA., Text, p. 29, Trans. p. 143. 6 EI., I, p. 296-305, V. 7.
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