Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.17

c21.17

Bhillama was succeeded in 1113 Śaka by his son Jaitrapâla or Jaitugi He took an active part in his father's battles "He assumed [107] the sacrificial vow on the holy ground of the battle-field and throwing a great many kings into the fire of his prowess by means of the ladles of his weapons, performed a human sacrifice by immolating a victim in the shape of the fierce Rudra, the lord of the Tailangas, and vanquished the three worlds "⁷ This same fact is alluded to in the Paiṭhan grant, in which Jaitugi is represented to have killed the king of the Trikalingas in battle He is there spoken of also as having released Ganapati from prison and to have placed him on the throne ⁸ The Rudra therefore whom he is thus represented to have killed on the field of battle must have been the Rudradeva of the Kâkatîya dynasty whose inscription we have at Anamkoṇḍ near Woraṅgal, and the Ganpati, his nephew⁹ who was probably placed in confinement by Rudradeva In other places also his war with the king of the Andhras or Tailangas and his having raised Ganapati to the throne are alluded¹⁰ to, and he is represented to have deprived the Andhra ladies of the happiness arising from having their husbands living ¹¹ Lakshmîdhara, the son of the celebrated mathematician and astronomer Bhâskarâcharya, was in the service of Jaitrapâla and was placed by him at the head of all learned Paṇḍits He knew the Vedas and was versed in the Tarkasâstra and Mîmâmsâ ¹²