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same authority informs us that Sankha was once taken prisoner and was shackled in the jail of the Yādava king. It is also said of him that images of twelve feudatory princes were tied to his left foot with a golden chain."2 The same work further says that once Vīradhavala invaded the Läța country and captured Stambhatirtha (Cambay) by force 3 and appointed Vastupāla to govern that territory. It happened during the temporary eclipse of Sankha who was perhaps under the imprisonment of the Yādava king.
Sankha, thereupon, established his capital at Broach (Bhrgukaccha) and attacked Cambay with a mighty array of fource. In this war he was assisted by the Yādava king Sinhaņa, who was then on friendly terms with him and also with the Paramāra ruler Devapāla. But Vastupala through his skill foiled the plan. At last, Sankha was defeated and compelled to retire to Broach.?
According to the Hammira-mada-mardana the cause of the war was the retaliation for his father's enmity by Sankha,s but the later Jain works give somewhat different reasons. The Prabandha-cintamani tells us that Vastupāla had a quarrel with the sea-merchant, Saiyad, who called in to his help Mahasadhanika Sarkha from Broach.9 The Prabandhakośa and Jinaharşa's Vastupala-carita supply the names of the merchant sailors as Sãdika and Sankha, chief of the port of Vadvā, which is some five miles (from Bhavanagar.10 The cause of the quarrel is given as the insult done by Sādika to Vastupāla in disregarding his authority.11
From these Jain sources it is clear that a branch of the Cahamāna race was ruling at Broach. It also appears from the sources referred to above
1 Ibid., V. 42: Jalat 7ci 2 Ibid., V. 28: T hargaad T fagsra: 3 Ibid., Canto IV, V. 24: TFT arya: s lay #: 1
तद्विगृह्य समादत्त लङ्कामित्र रघूद्वहः॥ 4 Ibid., V. 25: Tyageutste fata: 1
तत्पुरं वस्तुपालस्तु चिरकालमपालयत् ॥ * Ibid., Canto V, V. 16: Tala glas To u t: 1 6 GOS., X, Act I, V. 13. ? Ibid., p. 18: 37717at M a pa: Tafe: 1 8 Ibid., p. 5: Arca Thea: 1
9 SIGM., I, p. 102: TEFTISEUT FHOTO #777 ata fag STAR श्रीभृगुपुरान्महासाधनिकं शंखनामानं श्रीवस्तुपालं प्रति बालकालरूपमानीतवान् ।
10 SJGM., VI, p. 108, para 127. 11 Ibid. ; 393 FTTEBÈ ? afaatimit aj ila:, arfo ARTESTI
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