Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Tho placo where the treaty is concluded is the “victorious camp” and the provisions are that "each of these two princes should confine himself to his own country as before; neither of them should invade the territories of the other; if a powerful enemy attacked either of them they should both undertake a joint expedition against him; if only the general of an enemy did so, troops should be sent to encounter hiin; and if a prince from the country of either fled into that of the other taking away a certain valuable thing he should not be allowed quarter and the thing removed by him should be restored." Singhana who is also called Simhana was the most powerful of the Yâdava princes of Devagiri anil roigneil from 1131 to 1169 Saka or 1209 to 1217 A.D). Te invaded Gujarat twice at least, once in the time of Lavanaprasada and on another occasion when his grandson Vîsaladeva was on the throne. Of the first invasion Someśvara gives a graphic account in his Kirtikaumudî. All Gujarat was terrified when the intelligence of Singhiana's march against the country was received, and Lavaņaprasâda and his son Viradhavala proceeded at once to meet him. But being attacked from behind by four princes of Marval and abandoned by the chiefs of Godraha and Lâta, the father and son retreated. The army of Singhaņa, however, did not advance. But Someśvara does not give us any reason further than what is involved in the observation, which is simply rhetorical and not historical, that “deer do not follow the path of a lion even when he has abandoned it." The reason, however, is supplied by the document before us. Though the object of our author was to give the form of a treaty of alliance, he could not have thought of using the names of Singhana and Lavaņapraså da unless such a treaty had been actually concluded between them, and it should be remembered that Singhaņa's invasion of