The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s2.16

v2.c30.s2.16

Abhimanyu was succeeded by his son Vijayapāla. Nothing definite is recorded of him in the Dubkund inscription. Some evidence of his military success may however be gathered if we accept his identification⁴ with the *Adhirāja* Vijaya of the *Biana stone-inscription*. This record was discovered on a pilaster of a Jaina temple, now used by Muslims as a mosque, in the town of Biana (Lat. 26° 55′ N., Long. 77° 21′ E.), on the river Gambhir, in the State of Bharatpur in Rajputana. It contains 18 lines, opening with *Oṁ oṁ namaḥ Siddhebhyaḥ*. It then records that in the kingdom of king *Adhirāja* Vijaya (line 5), at the city of Śrīpathā,⁵ there was a Jain teacher (*Sūri*) named Maheśvara, a leader of the Śvetāmbaras belonging to the Kāmyaka-*gaccha* (or sect), who occupied the seat of Viṣṇu Sūri. In lines 6-11, it records that Maheśvara Sūri died when the (*V.*) year one thousand one hundred was drawing to its close. In lines 17-18 we are told that the *praśasti* was incised by the *Sādhu* Sarvadeva in *V. Saṁ.* 1100 (A.D. 1043).¹