[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c29.s2.218 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.218 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.218 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.s2.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.218) The \*Prabandhacintāmaṇi\* of Merutuṅga² seems to contain a story of an attack on Gujarat by Gayā-Karṇa. We are told that once when the Caulukya Kumārapāla of Aṇahilapāṭaka had started on a pilgrimage "he was informed by a couple of posts (\*Yugalikā\*), who came from a foreign country that Karṇa, king of Ḍāhala was marching against him. His forehead was beaded with drops of perspiration, and he abandoned, out of fear, his desire of being head of the congregation, and came with the minister Vāgbhaṭa, and blamed himself at the feet of Hema-candra." The story runs that the Jain sage assured his disciple that "in the 12th watch from this time your mind will be relieved." At the appointed time Kumārapāla was informed that 'Karṇa had gone to heaven.' "Karṇa," we are told, "was making a march at night, seated on the forehead of an elephant, and allowed his eyes to close in sleep, and while he was in this state, a gold chain, that he wore on his neck, caught in a banyan tree, and hanged him, and so he died." It is difficult to say whether this story has any foundation in fact. But the date of Kumārapāla (\*c.\* 1144-73 A.D.), makes it almost certain that by 'Karṇa,³ king of Ḍāhala' Merutuṅga meant Gayā-Karṇa (\*c.\* 1151 A.D.). - [Previous: v2.c29.s2.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.217) - [Next: v2.c29.s2.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.219) - [Up: v2.c29.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Prabandhacintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.jaina.prabandhacintamani) — Merutuṅga, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.218) · Pramāṇa