The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.402

v2.c31.402

Another war mentioned by Merutuṅga was waged against Suṁvara,³ the chief of Surāṣṭra. The expedition against this prince was led by the prime-minister Udayana. But in the struggle that followed the Caulukya forces were defeated, and Udayana himself was carried to his quarters mortally wounded. Bhagvanlal has calculated that this war must have taken place sometime *c.* 1149 A. D. (V. S. 1205), as the repairs to the temple of Ādinātha at Pālitāna, which he promised to carry out just before his death, were finished in A. D. 1156-57 A. D. (V. S. 1211).⁴ The same scholar has suggested that the Surāṣṭra chieftain was possibly some Gohilvad Mehr chief. He may however have belonged to the family of the Ābhīra-Cūḍāsamā chiefs of Junagadh who had been giving trouble to the Caulukyas since the days of Mūlarāja I. The *Kumārapāla-carita* tells us that Samara (Sausara) was in the end defeated and his son placed on the throne. As the Sundha Hill inscription⁵ tells us that the Naḍḍula Cāhamāna Ālhādana⁶ helped the Gurjara king in suppressing disturbances in the mountainous parts of Saurāṣṭra (*girau saurāṣṭre*), the victory over Samara may have been won through the assistance of this feudatory.⁷