The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s5.47

v2.c30.s5.47

But as I have already noticed, there is a distant possibility that Kānhạḍadeva and the present Dhūmarāja may be identical with the Adbhuta-Kṛṣṇarāja of the Vasantgadh stone-inscription. Dhandhuka of the Abu inscription may also be the same as the father of Pūrṇapāla of the Vasantgadh epigraph. But without confirmatory evidence these suggestions must be regarded as pure guess. The person who really founded this line was Rāmadeva, who may have been a relative of Kṛṣṇarāja II (*c.* 1060-67 A.D.) of the two Bhinmal inscriptions noticed above. The *Kumārapālacarita* relates that the Caulukya king Kumārapāla suppressed the rebellion of Vikramasiṁha, the lord of Candrāvatī, and having imprisoned him, installed his nephew Yaśodhavala in his place.¹ This Yaśodhavala is no doubt to be identified with the prince of that name in the Mt. Abu inscription. He was certainly the feudatory of Kumārapāla (*c.* 1144-73 A.D.), as he claims to have killed Ballāla, the lord of Mālava, when the latter became hostile to the Caulukya prince.² Thus Vikramasiṁha appears to have been a brother of Rāmadeva, and may have been placed in Candrāvatī as his feudatory by Jayasiṁha Siddharāja (*c.* 1094-1144 A.D.). The following inscriptions of Yaśodhavala are so far known :—