The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.724

v2.c31.724

The fragmentary Dabhoi inscription seems to claim that Vīsaladeva successfully fought with the *Dhārādhīśvara* and *Dakṣiṇeśvara* and kept a hero's vow (*vīra-vrata*) on the banks of the Sindhu.¹ His success against the rulers of Mālava and the South is confirmed by the epithets applied to him in the Kadi grant. The name of the Southern prince is given as Siṅghaṇa (c. 1210-47 A.D.), who was certainly the Yādava ruler of that name, and who had been raiding the Gujarat frontier since the days of Lavaṇaprasāda. The statement contained in the Kadi grant, that Vīsaladeva won in a *Svayaṁvara* the daughter of the Karṇāṭa-rāja, may indicate an alliance between the Caulukyas and the Hoysaḷas of Dorasamudra against their common enemy the Yādavas of Devagiri.² Bühler suggested that the Mālava prince who was defeated by Vīsaladeva was Pūrṇamalla.³ But it is more likely that he was either Jaitugideva (c. 1239-43 A.D.) or Jayavarman (c. 1256-69 A.D.), the two immediate successors of Devapāla, the opponent of Vīradhavaḷa, who fought with Vīsaladeva. Bühler is however probably right in his guess that the ruler of Medapāṭa defeated by the Caulukya king was the Guhila Tevasiṁha (c. 1260-67 A.D.) mentioned in an Abu inscription.⁴