[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.c31.242 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.242 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.242 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.242](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.242) These inscriptions range from \*c.\* 1127 to 1143 A.D. According to the \*Prabandha-cintāmaṇi\* of Merutuṅga Jayasiṁha's reign extended over a period of 49 years, V.S. 1150-1199 (\*c.\* 1094-1143 A.D.).² This agrees with the period assigned in the \*Therāvalī\* of the same author.³ The \*Ā'īn-i-Akbarī\* and the \*Mirāt-i-Aḥmadī\* allot him a period of 50 years.⁴ The Bali stone-inscription, dated in V.S. 1200, seems to support the Muslim tradition. According to the \*Prabandha-cintāmaṇi\*, he ascended the throne when he was still very young, and the power in the state appears to have fallen into the hands of his mother, the dowager queen Mayaṇalladevī.⁵ It is not therefore unlikely, as Bhagvanlal has suggested, that the circumstances that led to the coronation of Jayasiṁha were attended with violence and court intrigue.⁶ The unusual sorrow of Devaprasāda which led him to burn himself alive to follow Karṇa⁷ and the violent death of Madanapāla, the brother of queen Udayamatī, Karṇa's mother,⁸ may be connected with intrigues and struggles for the succession. Merutuṅga seems to indicate that one of the most important acts of the queen-mother Mayaṇalladevī was the abolition of the tax at Bāhuloḍa,⁹ on the pilgrims going to Somnath. According to him the tax yielded seventy-two lakhs to the royal treasury.¹ - [Previous: v2.c31.241](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.241) - [Next: v2.c31.243](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.243) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31) ## Cites (1) - [Prabandhacintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.jaina.prabandhacintamani) — Merutuṅga, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.242](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.242) · Pramāṇa