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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJASTHANA
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In V.E. 1150, in the month of Pauga, the coronation of Siddharaja took place.1
The Prabandha-cintamani gives Jayasimha a reign of 49 years from V.E. 1150 to 1199 (c. 1094-1143 A.D.). The Vicaraśreni assigns him the same period. According to the Muslim authorities he ruled for 50 years. We find support for this view from the Bali stone inscription of Jayasimha dated V.E. 1200 (c. 1144 A.D.)."
His early reign: When Jayasimha ascended the throne the political condition of the kingdom of Anahilapaṭana was quite sound. His forefathers from Mülarāja down to Bhima fought with the rulers of Sakambharī, Sindh, Naddula, Malava, Saurastra, Lața, Cutch and Arbuda Mandal, but only the last three provinces came within the influence of Anahilavaḍa as a critical estimate of the contemporary inscriptions and the Jain chronicles show. Bhima annexed Candravati, though his success in Malava was not of much value. According to the Navasari plates of Karna, Karna captured a small principality of Lața, and it became a part of Anahilavada kingdom. Jayasimha was a great warrior. On the basis of whatever he inherited from his predecessors, he built a great empire in which the glory of Gujarata reached its summit. It, however, appears from the Dvyasraya-kavya and the Prabandha-cintamani that at the time of Jayasimha's coronation court intrigues and violence were rampant. Hemacandra tells a story that soon after Karna's death Devaprasada of the senior branch committed suicide after enjoining his son Tribhuvanapala to the paternal care of Jayasinha." This statement of Hemacandra according to the scholars refers to certain concealed facts. They conjecture that Devaprasada, son of Kṣemarāja and of a senior line, made an attempt for succession but lost his life. This inference may be supported by the fact that his son Tribhuvanapala does not appear during the reign of Jayasimha; perhaps he was also killed and his grandson Kumarapala was persecuted by Jayasimha for thirty years. During the whole of his long reign Jayasimha was bitterly hostile to this branch which appears to have attempted to wrest the succession."
1 SJGM., I, p. 55 : सं० ११५० वर्षे पौषवदि ३ शनौ श्रवणनक्षत्रे वृषलग्ने श्रीसिद्धराजस्य पट्टाभिषेकः ।
2 Ibid., p. 76 : संवत् ११५० पूर्व श्रीसिद्धराज जयसिंहदेवेन वर्ष ४९ राज्यं कृतम् ।
3 JSS., II. No. 4, p. 9.
4 AAK., II, p. 260; MA., translation, p. 143.
5 EI., XI, pp. 32-33.
8 DV., Canto XI, Vs. 115-116.
DHNI., II, p. 968; GMRI., p.
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