The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s3.27

v2.c29.s3.27

There is reason to believe that this Kalacuri branch became completely independent during the reign of this king. We are told in the inscription mentioned above that he was ‘allied with the ruler of Cedi (*Cedīśa*) and honoured by the princes of Kanyakubja and Jejā-bhuktika.⁵ He defeated and captured in battle one Someśvara and he had either annual tribute paid or presents given to him by the chiefs of the *maṇḍalas* of (Dakṣi)ṇa-Kośala, Andhra Khimḍī, Vairāgara, Lañjikā, Bhāṇāra, Talahāri, Daṇḍakapura, Nandāvalī and Kukkuṭa.¹ A Kharod stone-inscription further tells us that Jājalladeva defeated the lord of Suvarṇapura.² Kielhorn appears to have been right in suggesting the identification of the rulers of Kanyakubja, Jejā-bhuktika, and Cedi with the Gāhaḍavāla Govindacandra (*c.* 1114-1154 A. D.), the Candella Kīrtivarman (*c.* A. D. 1098) and the Kalacuri Yaśaḥ-Karṇa (*c.* A. D. 1073-1125), respectively. But he could not identify Someśvara. This prince, however, seems to me to be the same as the Nāgavaṁśī (Sinda) prince Someśvara, the father of Kanharadeva (Śaka 1033 = A. D. 1111).³ I have elsewhere⁴ suggested how these Nāgavaṁśī rulers came to hold that portion of the C. P. which is now occupied by the state of Bastar. It appears that the Tummāṇa and the Bastar kings carried on that policy of hostility which they inherited from their former masters, *viz.*, the Haihayas of Ḍāhala and the Cāḷukyas of Kalyani. The identification suggested above seems to be confirmed by the Kuruspal stone-inscription of the Nāgavaṁśī king Someśvara which refers to the chiefs of Lañji and Ratnapura as his rivals or contemporaries.⁵ It is certain that this Lañji, which has been identified with a well-known tract of that name in the district of Balaghat (C. P.) is the same as the Lañjika-*maṇḍala* of the Ratanpur inscription of Jājalladeva. Vairāgara was identified by Kielhorn with Wairagarh in the Chanda district. The same scholar also suggested that 'we may possibly have to read Andra-khimiḍī in the Ratanpur inscription and Jājalladeva and not Andra and Khimiḍi. If this is accepted then this place may possibly be the same as Kimedi, or Khimiḍe situated in the Ganjam district (Madras).⁶ Talahāri is probably the same as the *Talahāri-bhumi* which was acquired by a minister of Ratnadeva II, the son of Jājalladeva.¹ Suvarṇapura appears to be the same place from which the Orissa Somavaṁśīs issued some of their grants and which has been identified with Sonpur, the capital of the Sonpur State.² The other places whose chiefs Jājalladeva claims to have defeated cannot at present be identified. But it looks certain that the power of the Kalacuris of Tumimāṇa, which was gradually increasing since the days of Ratnarāja, had at last reached its acme in the reign of his grandson. Jājalla was no longer a feudatory of Tripurī, but an ally of the lord of Cedi.