Political History of Northern India

Author(s): Gulabchandra Chaudhary
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar

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THE DYNASTIES OF MADHYADESA
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Vijayacandra does not appear as powerful a ruler as his father. According to Prākrta Dvyāśraya-mahākāvya of Hemacandra, Caulukya Kumārapāla, in the course of his glorious career, devastated Kānyakubja and terrified its sovereign. The reign of Kumārapāla is generally assigned to the period from c. 1144 to 1172 A.D., and if there be any truth in the above statement, the event must have occurred during the period of Vijayacandra. Kumārapāla's earlier contemporary Gāhadavāla king Govindacandra was so powerful that this occurrence concerning him is well nigh impossible.
Jayacandra: Vijayacandra was succeeded by his son Jayacandra whose mother according to the Rambhāmañjarī of Nayacandra was queen Candralekhā.? According to the Canda Bardāi, Jayacandra was born of Anangapāl's eldest daughter Sundari Devi, Rājasekharasūrit and Nayacandra record his name as Jayantacandra and Jaitracandra respectively. Merutunga calls him Jayacandra. In the Purātana Prabandha-sangraha Jayacandra and Jaitracandra both names occur.
It is alleged that Jayacandra was given this name on account of his grandfather having achieved a victory over the Daśārņa country on the very day of his birth. According to Merutunga and Nayacandra, Jayacandra bore the epithet of 'Pangu' or 'Dala Pangula' from the circumstances that he maintained stupendous forces.* Canda Bardāi states that his army was so vast that in the march "the van had reached its ground ere the rear had moved off."
Jayacandra is credited with so many victories over his contemporary powers until he was completely defeated by Sihābuddin of Ghor. He had 1 Canto VI, V. 79, p. 209, Ed. S. P. Pandit (Bombay, 1900):
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7 Rambhāmañjari, Act I, p. 4: FAT THE Eagy a 70 yanसैन्यं जितं अत एव तन्नाम जैत्रचन्द्रः।
8 SGM., I, P. 113: iuffa fa TTT I gat Titi TITH AUT STAFE T TET TE THERA I Rambhāmañjari, I, p. 6: ITEETTI पंगुविरुदधारकः।
9 Tod's, Annals and Antiquities of Rājasthan, II, p. 936.