[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.c31.652 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.652 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.652 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.652](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.652) This grant shows that some time between V. S. 1275 and 1283, the dates of Bhīma II’s Bharana and Kadi (No. \*ii\*) inscriptions, the latter was ousted from his ancestral throne by a usurper. As Jayantasiṁha calls himself a Caulukya, he was probably one of Bhīma's relatives; but the actual relationship must remain for the present uncertain. The Kadi grant (No. \*ii\*), of Bhīma, dated in V.S. 1283, shows that the usurper's tenure of power was comparatively short, and that Bhīma had won back his throne at Aṇahilapāṭaka sometime before \*c.\* 1226 A.D. But the most serious danger that threatened the Caulukyas of Anhilvada came from one of their distant branches, which was founded by Dhavala, the husband of Kumārapāla's maternal aunt. The \*Sukṛta-kīrti-kallolinī\* calls this chief Bhīmapallī-pati and the line founded by him as Dhavala-\*kula\*.¹ His son was Āna or Arṇorāja, who, we are told, served under Kumārapāla and killed the chiefs of Medapāṭa and Candrāvatīpura.² In return for his services Kumārapāla granted him the village of Vyāghrapallī, about 10 miles S.W. of Aṇahilapāṭaka.³ It was from this village that his family came to be known in the Vernacular form as \*Vāghelā\*. Udayaprabha⁴ relates that Bhīma II, considering that Arṇorāja, son of Dhavala, had made Kumārapāla king and was an object of that prince's favour, entrusted the task of administration to Arṇorāja's son Lavaṇaprasāda.⁵ It was this Lavaṇaprasāda and his son Vīradhavala⁶ who, while acknowledging the nominal sovereignty of Bhīma II, gradually carved out a principality round Dhavalakka (Dholka), between the Sabarmati and the Narbada. Though the Jain writers often invest Vīradhavala and even his father Lavaṇaprasāda with royal titles, it is significant that even as late as V.S. 1287 an Abu stone-inscription represents both of them as \*Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras\* and \*Rāṇakas\*. But it is to be noted that a Girnar inscription, dated in V.S. 1288, not only omits Bhīma's name, but invests Lavaṇaprasāda with the title of \*Mahārājādhirāja\* and his son with that of \*Mahārāja\*. It was in this very year that the \*Yamala-patra\* of the \*Lekha-paddhati\* and also an Abu inscription omit mention of the name of Bhīma. As Bhagvanlal Indraji has suggested, the Vāghelās perhaps rose to power by aiding Bhīma to recover his throne from the usurper Jayantasiṁha¹ (\*c.\* 1275-1283 V.S.). Though it is evident from epigraphic evidence, that Bhīma II continued to reign till V.S. 1296, he was apparently not strong enough to destroy this \*imperium in imperio\* which after Lavaṇaprasāda's death, Vīradhavala continued to build up in the south. The formal transference of the crown of Aṇahilapāṭaka was perhaps not completed even as late as V.S. 1300, when according to the \*Therāvalī\* Vīsaladeva ascended the throne, yet for all practical purposes, during the period V.S. 1288-1300 Vīradhavala seems to have acted as an independent sovereign. - [Previous: v2.c31.651](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.651) - [Next: v2.c31.653](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.653) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.652](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.652) · Pramāṇa