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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
possess no information about his son, wife and other members of his family from the Jain sources.
Thus we know from the Jain sources the following members of this branch:
Arņorāja
Lavaņaprasāda
Viradhavala
Vīrama
Visaladeva
Arjunadeva
Sārangadeva
Kaiņadeva
II. THE CĀHAMĀNAS OF LÃȚA There are unfortunately no Jain sources regarding the earliest existence of Cahamānas in Läța. The Hansot grant of Bhartrvaddha is the only source which reveals that as early as the 8th century A.D. Lāța was under the possession of the then ruling dynasty of Cāhamānas. After that period nothing is known of them from any sources for about five centuries. But all of a sudden their existence in Lāța in the thirteenth century is revealed by the Jain sources. A contemporary drama the Hammira-mada-mardana of Jayasimhasūri, frequently, refers to Sankha alias Sangrämasinha, son of Sindhurāja, brother of Sinha, the Cānamāna king of Lātadeśa. He is described there as "Mandaleśvara" and "Gurjaramahihandamandalāhivar."1 His capital was at Broach. The Vasanta-vilāsa of Bālacandra states that the princes of Broach belonged to the Cāhamāna clana and as late as V.E. 1533, we
TAREHE
1 GOS., X, 1920, p. 17: (i) afar AETTFT area:
FAGETTI
(ii) FTTHETHEREAS II 2 GOS., VII, 1917, p. 22: Tehrfata fasih panta: 4977
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