Sambodhi 1976 Vol 05

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Instorical data ish the Tilakamaljan of Dhanapala
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with milltary assistance. The name sikhandaketu is evidently suggested by the other name of Arikeaarin viz. Kesideva, which occurs in the Bhandup plates of his nephew Chittacajadeva. Slidhuraja seems to have died soon after this expedition. He was succeeded by his son Bhoja. According to Merutunga Bhoja roigned for a long period of fifty five years. He must, therefore, have come to the throne when quite young. It seoms that Arikesarin also died about the period and was succeeded not by his son (that he had one is clear from the Navasabasankacarita), but by bis nephew Chittarajadeva who must have usurped the throne kaowing full well that the young Prince Bhoja of Dhars would not undertake a compaigo in such a distant country as Konkan to help the son of his father's friend, Arikesarin, for Bbcja invaded Koakan in A. D. 1019 and won a decisive victory which he commemmorated by issuing the two copper plates, It appears, therefore, piausible that Vidyadhara Cakragena mentioned by Dhanapala was the Vidyadhara Chittarajadeva (the Silahara nepbow of Arikesarin) whose daughter Tilakamañjari became the object of attachmont for Bhoja (Harlvahana).
According to Dr. R. S Trpath1188 "the silabara Ksatriyas who trace their origin from Vidyadhara Jimatavabada, had three branches koown in history. The third of these established its authority about the commencement of the eleventh cent. A, D, in Kolhapura and the districts of Satara and Belgaum. For a time it was also a master of Southern Konkan. Tho family enjoyed more independance and one of its kings Vijayarka or Vijayaditya, 18 said to have helpod Vijjala or Bijjala in bringing about the down fall of the last Calukya sovereign." Dr. Mirashi's point is more suited to the context of Dhanapala who has also alluded to the upsurge of Vaijayant, the capital of the Kuntala-country which included Southern Maharastra and Northern Kanarose districts of Mysore state, modern Banavası In the North Kanara district,18whero reigned supremo Vicitra. virya, the sire of Gandharvadatta, wife of the king of Kanci, and Patralekba, the spouse of Cakrasena,
The march of Samaraketu away from the Simbalas outskirts of Lanka) entalling a sudden attack on the capital of Kiratara ja Parvataka by namo, who was proud of his impregnable fort and army and took to the tactics of guerillas (lit. thieves) in the west of the bridge over the ocean)140 posal tho problem of identification of Parvataka, the Lord of the Kiratas. According to Dr. B.C. Law the Kiratas inhabited the castern extremity of the Kumarik dvipa Identified with India proper 141 Ceylon was a part and parcel of India in the Hindu period -(. , the period before the Arab inroada) and even after that and as already proved it was under the sceptre of the Coļa king Rajondra I, we can casily prosungo