History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c34.s3.13

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Kielhorn in his genealogies (Ep. Ind. VIII) gives only one inscription each against Bhīma and Karṇa. The first dated 1029 A. D. does not give much information about Bhīma (I. A. VI p. 193) and the second dated 1091 A. D. also gives no information about Karṇa (Ep. Ind. I. p. 317). The Vadnagar Praśasti of Kumārapāla also does not furnish much information about either. Bhīma is said to have conquered Dhārā, the capital of the Mālava-Chakravartin (Bhoja) by means of his efficient cavalry versed in five modes of moving (Dhārā) or versed in the use of five-weapons (Dhārā); and of Karṇa it gives the usual praise. The inscription of Karṇa dated 1091 A. D., however, shows that the Gujarat chroniclers are not wrong when they assign him a reign from 1064 to 1094 or 1093 A. D.