The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c34.s1.127.3

v2.c34.s1.127.3

This possibly happened sometime after *c.* 1171 A.D., the date of the Jagat inscription of Sāmantasiṁha, and before *c.* 1179 A.D., the date of his Solaj inscription. The former was found in the state of Udaipur and the latter in the State of Dungarpur (Vāgaḍa). According to Muhaṇota Naiṇsī,⁵ Sāmantasiṁha voluntarily abdicated his throne of Chitor in favour of his younger brother, in reward of his devoted service to him, and having ousted and killed Caurasīmalaka, the prince of Vāgaḍa, established his line in that region.⁶ We can well believe the chronicler as regards his statement about the retirement of Sāmantasiṁha from Mewar to Dungarpur, for this is supported by the Solaj stone-inscription of the Guhila prince. But what he writes about the voluntary abdication, when read with the statements of the tradition contained in his successor's inscriptions, seems clearly to be wrong. It appears that after the defeat of Sāmantasiṁha, when the country was occupied by the Jalor Cāhamāna Kītu, his brother Kumārasiṁha succeeded in pacifying the wrath of the Caulukya sovereign and with his assis-tance got himself installed on the throne of Āghāṭa-pura (mod. Ahar), from which his brother had been ousted. Kītu seems to have retired to his Jalor principality after peace had thus been restored between the two powers. Kumārasiṁha, we may assume, must have acknowledged the supremacy of the Caulu-kyas.