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THE DYNASTIES OF RAJASTHANA
Karna. Kṣemaraja, being of religious temperament, did not accept the throne and it naturally went to Karpa Keemaraja had a son named Devaprasāda who was living under the care of Karna. After the death of Karna, leaving his son Tribhuvanapala under the patronage of Jayasithha, he too died not long after Karna on Sarasvati. Jayasiihha treated Tribhuvanapala as his own son.1 Kumarapala was a son of this Tribhuvanapala. The fragmentary Citorgadh stone inscription of Kumarapala also confirms the above statement. The genealogy of Kumarapala given by Somaprabhācārya in his Kumarapala-pratibodha also approves this.3
The Prabandha-cintamani, however, gives a different version. According to it Bhima married a prostitute named Cauladevi who was at Pattana, and was famous for her beauty and merit. Bhima placed her in his harem. Her son was Haripāla, his son was Tribhuvanapala and his son was Kumarapāla. As Kumarapala was of low birth, Siddharaja could not bear the idea of his inheriting the throne and was always on the look-out for an opportunity to compass his destruction. According to the same authority Siddharaja had adopted as his son the prince named Cahaḍakumara who in the same work is called as the younger brother of the minister Bahada. From the Jain chronicles it appears that during the closing years of Jayasimha's reign his court was divided into two factions.6
His early days: The Kumarapala-carita tells us that owing to his hatred of Kumarapala, Jayasimha killed the latter's father Tribhuvanapala and thus compelled Kumarapala to become a fugitive. Kumarapala, on
DV., Canto V.
2 EI., XX, p. 209.
3 GOS., XIV, p. 5.
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• SJGM, I, p. 77 श्रीमदणहिलपुर पतने वृहति श्री भीमदेवराज्ये साम्राज्यं प्रतिपालयति श्री भीमेश्वरपुरे बकुलादेवीनाश्री [पण्यागना पतनप्रसिद्धं गुणपात्रं रूपपात्रे चतस्यास्तो प्रवृत्तिमवगम्यतामन्तःपुरेन्यधात् । तदंगजो हरिपाळदेवस्तत्सुत त्रिभुवनपालः तत्पुत्रः कुमारपालदेवः । भवदनन्तरमयं नृपो भविष्यति इति सिद्धनृपो विज्ञप्तः तस्मिन् हीनजातावित्यसहिष्णुतया विनाशावसरं सततमन्वेषयामास । & Ibid. p. 79 चाहडनाम कुमारः श्रीसिद्धराजप्रतिपन्नपुत्रः । • Ibid., p. 78. 7 : KC, III, 67 ft.
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