The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.98

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To this account we may add the following details found in the inscriptions of their successors, and Muslim sources. The Vadnagar *praśasti* of the reign of Kumārapāla (V.S. 1208)⁴ tells us that Mūlarāja was succeeded by Cāmuṇḍarāja. “Inhaling even from afar the breeze, perfumed with the ichor of his (Cāmuṇḍa’s) excellent elephants, the illustrious Sindhu-rāja fled together with his own elephants that were cowed by the smell of (their opponent’s) rut, and vanished in such wise that even all trace of the fame of that prince was lost.”⁵ This statement is not incredible in view of the fact that Sind formed the western border of the Caulukya kingdom. If there is any truth in this statement, we must assume that Cāmuṇḍa by his hostility to the Sind rulers merely carried on the policy laid down by his father.⁶ It is however difficult to identify this ruler of Sind. I can only suggest that he was probably one of the local rulers of Manṣūra who may have ruled there between the Habbārī dynasty and the Sumras.⁷ Abu'l- Faz̤l assigns to Cāmuṇḍa a reign of 13 years, but the *Mirāt-i-Aḥmadī* gives the figure as 12 years and four months and 2 days.¹ In view of this approximate agreement of the Hindu and Muslim chronicles we may assign to Cāmuṇḍa a reign of 12 or 13 years and place him *c.* 996-1009 A.D.