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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJASTHANA
mardi of Kuntala country, having left Siddharāja. He regarded the wife of Paramardi as his sister. He repulsed the attack of the king of Śrīmāla who invaded the country of Paramardi.1 The Puratana-prabandha-sangraha refers to Jagadeva of the Paramara clan who was an associate of Jayasimha." The Bardic tradition records Jagadeva as a Paramāra.
Among these conflicting references we have to decide as to who this Jagadeva was. We have shown elsewhere that Jagadeva the associate of Jayasithha could not be a Paramara ruler. His association with Paramardi tempts to suggest us that he must have been a man of Southern India. Pt. Bhagawanlal Indraji suggests that this Jagadeva might have been identical with the son of the sister of the Kadamba Jayakeśi's mother."
This Jayakeśi was the king of Goa and the nephew of queen Mayanalla, the mother of Jayasinha Siddharāja. It is probable that he might have lived with Jayasimha for some time and later on he might have gone to Calukya king Parama (Paramardi) Jagadekamalla (V.E. 1174-1206). Jagadeva was the name of one of the vassals of this Calukya king. Jagadeva belonged to the Säntära family and bore the title Tribhuvanamalla. He was in charge of Mahiśūra Mandala (Mysore) and lived also in the reign of Taila III, the successor of Parama.4
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This conjecture seems to have been true. Jagadeva of Säntärakula might have come over to Päțana in relation to queen Mayapalla. The Prabandha-cintamani records him as Trividha Veera which may be taken as the synonym of Tribhuvanamalla. We have an inscription of Jagadeva dated V.E. 1206, which indicates that after the death of Jayasimha in V.E. 1199 he went to the south in the service of Paramardi. In some respects, therefore, the statements of the Prabandha-cintamani are reliable."
His religion: His family religion was Saivism but he had great respect for other religions also. He made a pilgrimage to Somanath, no doubt, but he also visited Raivataka and Satruñjaya, the two holy places of the Jains." According to the Prabandha-cintamani he honoured and recognised all the branches of philosophy. He treated equally all the followers of different
1 SJGM., I, pp. 114-116.
2 Ibid., II, p. 25.1
D. K. Sastri, Aitihäsika Sambodhana, p. 62.
BG., I, Pt. I, p. 172 and Pt. II, p. 488.
* A detailed discussion has been made in the Aitikäsika Samsodhana (Gujarati)
by D. K. Sastri under the head 'Jagadeva Paramāra,' pp. 51-64.
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See supra p. 255.
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' SJGM., I, p. 70 : सर्वदर्शनमान्यताप्रबन्धः ।
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