The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.281

v2.c31.281

According to the chronicles, there was yet another struggle in which Jayasiṁha was involved. This was waged against a prince named Barbaraka.⁸ According to the *Dvyāśraya* this chief was assisted by the younger brother of ‘the Rāja of Antardhanadeśa.’ As the followers of Barbaraka are described by Hemacandra as *Rākṣasas*,¹ who troubled the Brāhman sages at Śrīsthala-tīrtha (Siddhapur) he may have been a leader of some non-Aryan tribe. According to Bhagvanlal, the modern representatives of this tribe ‘are the Bābarias, settled in South Kathiawar, in the province still known as Bābariāvāḍa.’² Hemacandra tells us that Jayasiṁha led an army against this chief and defeated and imprisoned him. But on the assurance given by his wife Piṅgalikā that he would leave the Brāhmans in peace, he was released; and henceforth became a faithful servant of the Caulukya king. That this account of Hemacandra is based on fact is shown by the title *Varvaraka-Jiṣṇu* first founded in the Ujjain epigraph dated V.S. 1195 (*c.* 1139-40 A.D.).³