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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES commentator Abhayatilakagani identified with Kakka. He crushed the rebellion of Ballāla. A Jain inscription from Citorgarh composed by Digambara Rāmakīrti refers to Dandanayaka Sajjana who accompanied Kumārapāla in his expedition against Anaka. This Sajjana is probably the same as was appointed the governor of Saurāşțra by Jayasinha and according to the Vividha Tirtha-kalpa built a temple on Girnar mountain in V.E. 1185 (A.D. 1129). If he be the same person he must have been very old at the time of Kumārapāla's expedition. According to the colophon of the Prthvicandra-carita of the date V.E. 1212 (c. 1155 A.D.) there was a powerful general by name Vosari, who was ruling the region of Lāța between the rivers Māhi and Damana with full rights. He was by caste a Brahmaņa and was once the companion of Kumāra pāla in the time of his distress. In the days of his fugitive life he followed Kumārapāla like a shadow and wandered with him through villages and forests. It is said in the Prabandhas regarding Kumārapala's life that, after accession, Kumärapāla appointed him as a great general to rule over Lāța country.5 We, however, do not find his name either in any contemporary literature or in epigraphs. From a Jain inscription of V.E. 1213 found at Ghāņerāva6 we hear of Dandanayaka Vaijalladeva of Kumārapāla. He is also known as Vaija or Vajayaladeva. We have two other inscriptions about him of the dates V.E. 1210 and 1216 from Bhatunda and Bāli (both in Jodhpur division) respectively. He was ruling over Naddūla territory which belonged to the feudatory Cāhamäna family. According to an inscription of Ajaya pala Caulukya, dated V.E. 1231, he is mentioned as a Mahama waleśvara (Governor) ruling over Narmadataţa, i.e., Lăța country. We also know from the Jain sources some of the important personages, such as Purohits like Savvadeva, Someśvara and Amiga, an astrologer like Indra and a man in charge of charitable institutes like Abhayakumära."
His court: In the court of Kumarapala besides his ministers, general and feudatories, there were several religious teachers, scholars, poets and
1 DV., XIX, V. 125. 2 EI., II, p. 422. 3 SJGM., X, p. 9. 4 Ibid., XVIII, p. 107. 5 Ibid., XVIII, Introduction, p. 18. 6 P. C. Nahar, Jain Lekha-sangraha, I, p. 218 7 AIS., WC., 1907, p. 52, 8 EI., XVIII, p. 8o. 9 GMRI., p. 323.
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