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This story shows that Lavaņaprasāda outlived Vīradhavala. He wanted to enthrone his second son, Virama, but his plans were frustrated by minister Tejahpāla. He, perhaps, was poisoned by Visala. Vīsala while capturing the power removed all sorts of thorns in his way. He allured Vīrama and then killed him.
As to when these intrigues prevailed we have no direct information, but we may assume from the two Jain colophons quoted above, that they might have started in V.E. 1295 and continued till V.E. 1300, when Visala occupied the throne of Patan and became a full-powered king.
Death of Vastupāla: After the death of Viradhavala Vastupāla could not live long. Within two years he also died. The contemporary authority, the Vasanta-vilasa, states that in the fifth bright fortnight of Magha in V.E. 1 296 Vastupāla, after consoling his wife Lalitādevī, his son Jaitrasiraha and his brother Tejahpala, left this mortal body. The Prabandha-kośaputs the date of his death in V.E. 1298 and the place as Ankevāliya, but this statement cannot be regarded as correct in the light of the above contemporary statement. After the death of Vastupala, Visaladeva made Tejahpāla the prime minister who according to a Jain colophon enjoyed that post upto V.E. 1303.3 The statement of the Prabandha-kośa that Visaladeva made Nagada the prime minister when Vastupāla was alive, cannot be regarded as reliable in the light of the above view. The Prabandha-cintamani and the Prabandha-kośa state that Vastupäla died in the way between Dhavalakka and Satruñjaya while he was on pilgrimage. The contemporary work Vasanta-vilasa, however, has no such statements. The Prabandha-kośa records that Vīsaladeva diminished the ministerial power of the two brothers. It, however, does not seem likely, for we know from the earlier work Prabandha-cintamani that Visaladeva got the throne in V.E. 1295 simply through Vastupāla's favour and his kingdom was firmly established by him. According to Purātana-prabandha-sangraha,
1 GOS., VII, Canto XIV, V. 37: a faqutturafa sitiantatza: 1
FISIOCIET HET PA TUIFAIÀST ATTIEN etc. 2 SJGM., VI, pp. 127-128: f iCIT 9886 a 91977 Barf3198 यावत प्राप etc..
3 SJGM., XVIII, p. 124, No. 198. 4 Ibid., VI, p. 125. 6 Ibid., I, p. 105; ibid., VI, p. 128: T RITATETHET 1547 6 Ibid., VI, p. 125. ? Ibid., I, p. 104. 40
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