History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c34.s1.35

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The enmity with the Chedi kingdom on the east and with Karṇāṭa on the south was almost hereditary and more disastrous, the Chedi Haihayas and the Karṇāṭa Chālukyas being usually related by marriage. A sister of Yuvarāja of Chedi was the mother of Tailapa of Karṇāṭa and we have seen already (Vol. II) that Muñja constantly fought with Tailapa and was eventually taken prisoner and even put to death by him. Gāṅgeyadeva was Yuvarāja's successor and ruled from 1038 to 1042 and his successor was Karṇadeva who was the most powerful of the Haihaya line and had a long reign from 1042 to 1072. Bhoja's contemporaries at Kalyan in the south were Jayasinha (1018 to 1040) and Someśvar (1040 to 1069). It seems that Jayasinha once advanced on Dhar and defeated Bhoja an event mentioned in an inscription of Jayasinha¹ (I. A. Vol. V p. 15). Bhoja must have defeated this king in turn as also Gāṅgeya sometime about 1040 which event might have given rise to the saying now current in Malwa “Kahān Rājā Bhoja, dur Kahān Gaṅgā Teli” (originally it must have been Gaṅgeya of Telangana, as ingeniously suggested by Mr. Lele, Telangana being a subordinate of Chedi).* Whatever this may be Someśvara Jayasiṅha’s successor again invaded Malwa and signally defeated Bhoja. This event is related in the Vikramāṅkadevacharita by Bilhaṇa (I. 91). Later, Bhoja may have attacked Someśvara and defeated him. This or the earlier defeat may have been referred to in the Udepur Praśasti noted before.