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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
In the battle Cahada was taken prisoner and Arnoraja was wounded. As a result the king of Sakambhari submitted and gave his daughter in marriage to Kumārapāla.1
This victory over Arnoräja is also recorded in the Vasanta-viläsa, Vastupala-Tejah-pala-prasasti,3 Sukrtakirtikallolini, Prabhavaka-carita, Kumarapala-prabandha, Prabandha-kosa' and Kumarapala-carita
This struggle with Arnorāja is also supported by a Jain inscription from Citodagarha composed by Ramakīrti, the head of Digambar Jains of V.E. 1207 (c. 1150 A.D.). According to this inscription, Sajjana the Dandanayaka assisted Kumarapala in this war. This also shows that the country of Sapädalaksa, over which Arporaja ruled, was devastated. Kumarapala with his victorious army then encamped at Salipura near modern Citor in Udaipur District. He accompanied by his new father-in-law Arņorāja and his general Sajjana went to worship Samideś vara a Citor. He made there a gift of a village to the temple while the Dandanayaka Sajjana donated an oil mill.9
According to this inscription this war must have ended in V.E. 1207 (c. 1150 A.D.), for a colophon of a Jain MS, the Pujavidhanal of V.E. 1208 (A.D. 1151) among other titles of Kumarapala, refers to the title Praudhapratapa-nijabhujavinirjita, rananganopatta, Šakambharibhupala, which must have been borne by Kumarapala after this war. Several other colophons of Jain MSS mention this title in the following eloquent terms: Sapadalaksarastra-vana-dahana-davanām," Mahahavasangrama-nirvyüdha pratijna-praudha; nijabhujara angana-nirjita Šakambharibhupala, 12 which remind us that the war with Arporaja was an important one in the life of Kumarapala. In the inscriptions of Kumarapala as well as his vassals this battle has been. recorded prominently,13
1 DV., Canto XIX, Vs. 1-35.
2 GOS., VII, III, 29. This work refers to the Cahamana king as king of Jangala.
3
GOS., X. p. 58 ff. V. 25.
Ibid., Appendix, II, p. 67 ff. V. 61.
SJGM., XIII, pp. 199-200.
6 P. 40. Ibid., VI. p.
Canto IV, Vs. 213-446.
9 EI., IX, p. 12 ff.
10 SJGM., XVIII, p. 106.
11 Ibid., p. 107.
12 Ibid., p. 109.
13 GMRI., pp. 288-289; DHNI., II, p. 988,
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