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afforded splendour to the court of the paramount sovereign sharing his weal as well as woes.
Dr. Pratipāla Bhatia as quoted above construes the data of Tilakamañjari as alluding to the administrative organisation of the Paramāra kings and especially Bhoja among them all. She takes these Paramāras as the rulers of Malva and calls their territory as the Mālavadeśa, which was divided into a number of Mandalas for the sake of administrative convenience. But in reality the entire administrative organisation illustrated by Dhanapāla is in the light of the organisation of the territorial jurisdiction of Meghavāhana, the paramount sovereign of the Košalas with their capital Ayodhyā. Harivāhana the crown prince along with his foster brother Samaraketu, the crown prince of the sovereign of the Simhalas has been described promiscuously holding sway over the entire territorial jurisdiction of his sire's regime which encompassed within its fold the Mandalas such as Saurāṣtra,Kāñcī," Kāmarūpa, Kāsmīra and Strīrājya. All these represent the western, southern, eastern and northern parts of the Indian Peninsula forming the four main subdivisions of the kingdom of Meghavāhana. The Mandalas comprising of the kingdoms of subsidiary kings brought under sway by force and released accordingly were further subdivided into Janapadas or vijayas which were further subdivided into towns and villages. As for example Kāñci mandala having Kusumasekhara, the forehead mark of the lineage of the Yadus, for its sovereign had under his suzerainty the kings reigning over the regions lying between the mountains Malaya and Mahendra, i.e. the portion of the western Ghāts, the Nilgiris to the Cape Comorin; the southern extension of the western Ghāts below the Kāverī now known as Travancore hills, really form the western side of the Malayagiri; or Mount Candaka in the Malabar State or the southern part of the western Ghāțs south of Kāverī, comprising of the Dodabetta, Nīlgiri,
1. TM Vol. I p. 157. 2. Paramāras p. 215. 3. Ibid. Vol. III p. 186. 4. Ibid. Vol. II p. 193, Sm. ed. p. 321. 5. Ibid. Vol. III p. 34, Sm. ed. p. 349. 6. Ibid. Vol. II p. 232, Vol. III p. 88. 7. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 372. 8. UGT drifastan sila: 794 Tek Hect..........44210
p. 185. LL. 2-3 9. HGAI p. 206.
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