The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.52

v2.c31.52

Amongst the other wars of Mūlarāja referred to by the chronicles, only two deserve our serious attention. One of these was his war with Lakṣarāja,⁴ the king of Kaccha.⁵ Merutuṅga tells us that this prince was the son of Phulaḍa and Kāmalatā, the daughter of a Paramāra king called Kīrtirāja.⁶ Lakṣarāja, 'owing to the boon of Yaśorāja,⁷ whom he had propitiated...was altogether invincible. He repulsed eleven times the army of king Mūlarāja.' But in the twelfth encounter Mūlarāja besieged him at Kapilakoṭi, killed him in single combat, and trod on the flowing beard of his foe.¹ If there is any foundation of fact in this story, these hostilities may have begun long before the joint invasion of the Lāṭa and Śākambharī kings. For Mūlarāja’s retirement on that occasion to Kanthkoṭ shows that he was already master of Eastern Cutch.