The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.151.3

v2.c30.s4.151.3

For the Balagamve stone-inscription of that date of the time of Jayasiṁha (*c.* 1018-42 A.D.) claims that he was ‘a moon to the lotus which was king Bhoja,’ *i.e.*, he ‘took away the glory of Bhoja just as the moon causes the water-lilies that bloom in the daytime to close their flowers at night.’¹ The samè inscription also claims that Jayasiṁha ‘searched out and beset and pursued and ground down and put to flight the confederacy of Mālava.’² There is no evidence to show who were the princes that were included in this ‘confederacy of Mālava’ The claim that the Cālukya king completely destroyed the power of Bhoja is most probably mere *praśasti*. That his success could not have been substantial is shown by the first three grants of the time of Bhoja. The first records the celebration of the festival-day of the conquest of Konkan in January 1020 A.D., which shows that the actual conquest must have taken place either in January 1019, or even earlier. The second grant, about 8 months later, again records gifts on the festival day of the victorious occupation of Konkan. That these are not mere vain boasts is shown by the Kalvan plates of his feudatory Yaśovarman, who appears to have held sway in the Nasik district, bordering on Konkan.³ Unfortunately this inscription is not dated in any era. ‘But that the struggle continued unabated on this frontier till at least Saka 946 (A.D.