The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.47

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This invasion of Gujarât must have been one of the earlier ones alluded to in the Ambem inscription, and Kholes'vara himself must have been the commander of the Yâdava army on the occasion. For Lavaṇaprasâda is said to have declared himself independent of his original master Bhîma II. of Anahilapattana about the year 1276 Vikrama,¹ corresponding to 1141 S'aka, which was about the ninth or tenth year of Siṁhaṇa's reign, and the work in which the treaty mentioned above occurs was composed in 1288 Vikrama, i. e. 1153 S'aka. But the expedition under the command of Râma, the son of Kholes'vara, must have been sent a short time before S'aka 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 S'aka 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