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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
punish even his brother-in-law who was once instrumental in getting him. the throne and who afterwards had become haughty and contemptuous. Kumarapala first gave him warning which he did not heed, then by the order of the king he was blinded and his limbs were broken by his athletes. After this most of his officers, taking the lesson that the king should not be taken lightly, submitted to him. According to the same authority Cahada, the adopted son of Jayasimha, escaped and with a section of the royal army took service under the king of Sapädalakṣa. The Kumarapala-carita informs us that Kumarapala, after his coronation, made Bhopalladevi his Pattarani and Udayana his chief minister.3 This Udayana was, no doubt, the same man who had helped him to escape from the fury of Jayasimha at Cambay. Within two or three years of his early reign Kumarapala restored order in his kingdom, consolidated his power and its empire reached its zenith.
Reign period: The Prabandha-cintamani gives him a reign of 31 years from V.E. 1199 to 1230.4 The Mirat-i-Ahmadi assigns him a reign of 30 years and 6 months, while Ain-i-Ahabari records only 23 years. The Vicaraśreņi allots him a reign from 1199 to 1229 V.E. The Bâli inscription of his predecessor is dated V.E. 1200.7 and the Nadaläi stone inscription of Kumarapåla refers to his date V.E. 12288 and the Udaipur inscription of his successors Ajayapala is found bearing the date V.E. 1229.9 From these it appears that the Vicaraśreni and Prabandha-cintamani do not represent the true tradition regarding the upper and lower limits of his reign.
His conquests: His extensive conquests prove that Kumarapala was a great warrior like his predecessor. Hemacandra in his Samhskyt and Präkyt Dvyāśraya-kavya records an account of his several wars. In his Samskṛt Dvyasraya-kävya he refers to his two wars, one with king Anna of Sapadalakṣa and the other with Ballala of Malava. He states that looking at the energy and vigilance of their sovereign, neighbouring chieftains like those
1 lbid., pp. 78-79: स प्रौढतया देशान्तरपरिभ्रमणनैपुण्येन राज्यशास्ति स्वयंकुर्वन् राजवृद्धानामरोचमानस्तेः सम्भूय व्यापादयितुं व्यवसितः । सान्धकार गोपुरेषु न्यस्तेषु. • तानि प्रधानान्यन्तकपुरी प्राहिणोत् ।
Ibid, p. 79 चाहनामा कुमार सपादलक्षीयभूपतेः पत्तिभावं बभार ।
KC., III, V. 478.
• SJGM, I, P. 95
4
MA., Trans., p. 1436 AAK., II, P. 260.
7 EI., XI, pp. 32-33.
8 EI., XI, pp. 47-48.
IA., XVIII, pp. 344-48.
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