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prasāda.1 The Sukyta-sanii kirtana states that once Kumārapāla appeared in a dream to his grandson Bhīma and directed him to appoint Lavaņaprasāda as Sarvesvara (vice-regent) and his son Vīradhavala as his heirapparent:
Next day in the court in the presence of the nobles when Lavaņaprasāda and Vīradhavala entered, the king said to Lavanaprasāda : "Your father Armorāja seated me on the throne. You should, therefore, uphold my power as Sarvesvara, and your son Viradhavala as my heir-apparent." 2
The Sukrta-kirti-kallolini mentions that Bhīma II, considering that Arnorāja once was an object of Kumārapāla's favour and that he made him king, entrusted his kingdom to his son Layaņaprasāda.3
The fact that Lavaņaprasāda was Sarvesvara of Bhīma is confirmed by the Girnăra inscription of V.E. 1288 found over the west doors of the temple of Vastupāla and Tejahpāla. As to when he was raised to that high post we have definite information from that inscription. It refers to the fact that in V.E. 1276 Vastupāla and Tejahpāla were appointed with the power of Sarvesvara to carry on the business of the seal in Dhavalakka and other cities in the Gurjara-mandala by the Maharāja Srī Vīradhavala, son of (Caulukya-kula-prakaśanaika-mārtanda) Mahārājādhiraja Lavaņaprasāda.
This shows that before V.E. 1276 Lavaņaprasāda must have been appointed as Sarvesvara. Bühler infers, however, from the title Sarvesvara that Lavanaprasāda and his son might have thrown away the suzerainty of Bhima in that year and assumed that title.5 But this assumption does not seem probable for we know from a Jain inscription of V.E. 1287 noted above that Lavaņaprasāda was simply a Mahāmandalesvara and Ranaka at that time. The same inscription also confers the same title on his son Vīradhavala. Moreover, the colophon of the Jain MS V yakarara-tippapakaiit of
1 SJGM., I, p. 98: HATCHT: STESSUTIHIGPIT TELİ FITI 2 Canto III, Vs. 15-39: IETOT ET afgre I
युवराजोऽस्तु मे वीरधवलो धवलो गुणैः॥ 3 GOS., X, p. 78, V. 24: T utar TUŠI
अर्णोराज न्यधत्त नृपति मामेतदीय: पिता।
मत्वैवं लवणप्रसादनृपतौ क्ष्माभारमेव व्यधात् । 4 HIG, Pt. III, No. 207, pp. 14-16: Traxfame ur etc. 5 IA., XXXI (1902), pp. 477–495. 6 El., VIII, p. 204 ff.
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