The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s6.144

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The inscriptions noticed above range from 1220 to 1249 V. S., corresponding to *c.* 1163-1192 A. D. Inscription No. 7 shows that Kelhaṇa was in *c.* 1171 A. D. still a feudatory of the Caulukya Kumārapāla (1144-73 A. D.). During his rule, as in the reign of his father, his brother Kīrtipāla apparently shared in the administration of the kingdom. This is evident from the Nadol grant of Kīrtipāla dated in V. S. 1218 (*c.* 1160 A. D.) and the Bamnera grant (i) of Kelhaṇa dated in V. S. 1220 (*c.* 1163 A. D.). The second inscription ends with the sign-manual of Kīrtipāla. The Sundha hill-inscription states that Kelhaṇa defeated the ‘Southern king Bhilima,’ who has rightly been identified with the Devagiri Yādava Bhillama (*c.* 1187-91 A. D.), whose Gadag inscription is dated in A. D. 1191.³ The dates on the records of Kelhaṇa show that he was also a contemporary of Mu‘izz ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ghūrī (1173-1206 A.D.). He may therefore possibly have come into conflict with Mu‘izz ud-Dīn in A. H. 574 (A. D. 1178), when the latter advanced from Multan through Rajputana on his way to Gujarat.⁴ Niẓām ud-Dīn relates that Mu‘izz ud-Dīn marched through the desert before he was met and defeated by the Caulukya Bhīma II (*c.* 1178-1241 A. D.).⁵ The *Pṛthvī-rāja-vijaya* actually states that before the Muslim invader was defeated by the Gujarat king, he took possession of Nadūla, and that all the princes on his route of advance took shelter in forts.⁶