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tures that this war must have taken place between 1160 and 1162 A.D., for Mallikārjuna's successor Aparaditya has his inscription of the date of Saka 1084 (A.D. 1162). But his inference is not correct, for we have one colophon of the Jain MS named Prthvicandra-carita of V.E. 1212 (A.D. 1155) which gives Kumārapāla a title 'Karnatarayamanamardanakaram. This title shows that Kumārapāla must have won the victory over Mallikarjuna before V.E. 1212 (1155 A.D.)
The above-mentioned three wars find their mention in the contemporary Jain literature, as well as in the epigraphs and colophons of the Jain MSS. But the war with the king of Surastra is found mentioned in the later Prabandhas only. The Prabandha-cintamani states that this war was led by the prime minister Udayana. It is said that at first Udayana went to worship the feet of Lord Rsabha on the Vimala mountain and sent all the heads of provinces to march on ahead of him. “After that, he marched on and reached the encampment of his army, and an engagement took place with that hostile chief. As the king's force was defeated by his enemies, the great Udayana himself rose up to fight. Then his body was mangled by the blows of the enemy and he was carried to his quarters weeping bitterly. Seeing his end near he expressed his desire for the temple of Satruñjaya to be restored, for which a satisfactory assurance was given to him.3
The Prabandha-cintamani states that Kumārapāla's brother named Kirtipāla went to encounter the king of Saurāşțra. Udayana went to held him with an army from Cambay. In this war Udayana was mortally wounded. He had cherished a desire of erecting the temple of Ādinātha of stone at Satruñjaya which at that time was made of wood. He, therefore, could not breathe his lost. On Kīrtipāla's assurance that his son Vägbhața would fulfil his desire, he expired peacefully. Accordingly Vāgbhața restored the temple in V.E. 1213.4 The Kumarapala-carita of Jayasimhasūri describes that in this battle the army of Udayana was defeated and in the dual Udayana killed the king of Saurastra and gave the throne to his son. Minister Udayana, while returning, fainted in the way, but regaining his consciousness he expressed his desire to restore the temple of Satruñjaya before other feudatories which was fulfilled afterwards by his sons in V.E. 1211.5
1 Ibid., p. 295. 2 SJGM., XVIII, p. 107. 3 SJGM., I, 86-87. 4 Ibid., XIII, Hemacandrasūri-caritam, Vs. 430-450 and 762-64. 5 KC., VIII, Vs. 477-520 and 642.
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