Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.45

c21.45

Śaka 1160, the date of the Ambem inscription For Râma's son is represented to have been a minor under the guardianship of that chief's sister Lakshmî, who governed the principality in the name of the boy Râma, therefore, had not died so many years before Śaka 1160 as to allow of his boy having attained his majority by that time On the occasion of this expedition Vîsaladeva, the son of Vîradhavala, was the sovereign of Gujarât For in an inscription of his he boasts [111] of his having been "the submarine fire that dried up the ocean of Siṅghaṇa's army,"²⁸ and he must have succeeded his father about the year 1292 Vikrama corresponding to Śaka 1157,²⁹ though he obtained possession of the throne at Aṇahilapattana in Vikrama 1302, corresponding to Śaka 1167 and 1246 A D The foundation of his boast was probably the fact of Râma's having been killed in the battle What the ultimate result was, however, the inscription does not inform us