Nrutyaratna Kosh Part 02

SR No.: 010618
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rasiklal C Parikh
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan Jodhpur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 249
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 14 MB

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NRTYARATNAKOS'A
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Gopacandra Bagula.1 But his geneology is so different from that of our Kalasena that he cannot be identified with him. In addition, there is the reference that Kalasena took away the treasures of Baggularāja.
There is mention of one Kalu-a-deva in the history of Orissa. He was a son of Prataparudra and might have reigned after him for a year or so in 1540-41.2
Considering his relation with the Nikumbhavams'a and the fact that it was subordinate to Yadavas of Devagiri, we may hazard the guess that he might have belonged to some less known branch of these Yadavas and might have ruled in the Nasik district. "The Devagiri Yadavas continued overlords of south and east Nasik till they were conquered by the Musalmans at the close of the thirteenth century."3 Or he might have belonged to one of the feudatory families of fhe Deccan. Towards the end of the 15th century a Maratha chief seized the fort of Galna in Malegaon and plundered the country round. About 1487 Malik Wagi and Malik Ashraf-the governors of Daulatabad retook Galnā. But in the disturbances that followed the murder of Malik Wagi, the Nasik chiefs again became independent. We are tempted to guess that Kalasena might have been one of these chiefs. But we cannot say anything definitely until we have more information about these Nasik Chiefs; or other feudatory families of the Daccan.3
Kumbhakarna
Coming to Kumbhakarna popularly known as Kumbhā Rāņā or simply, Kumbha or Kumbho, we find that we do not suffer from any dearth of sources of information regarding him. We have coins and inscriptions of his reign. There are prasastis or panegyrics in colophons of his literary works, references in the Ekalinga māhātmya and similar works. All this is in Sanskrit. We have Khyats and poems in old Rajasthani. In addition we have Muslim historians like Ferista writing about him in Persian.
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This abundance of sources, however, presents problems which are difficult to solve. The information gathered from Sanskrit and Rajasthani sources does not, on some important events, tally with the one
1. Rästraudha-Vanṣa-Mahä-Kavya Intro. p. XXII.
2. History of Orissa Vol. 1, pp. 337-38, R. D. Banerji, Calcutta, 1930.
3. Nasik pp. 186-188.
4. See Bibliography in the Maharana Kumbha by Harbilas Sarda, Second Edition.
1932, Ajmer. This work and the chapter dealing with Kumbha in the Rajputaneka-Itihasa, Vol. II by M. M. Gaurishankar Ojha are good modern works on the subject.