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INTRODUCTION
princes that are referred to in it are Bhillama, Jaitrapala and his son Singhana. Hemadide va served Singhana (verse 15). This Singhana must be Simhana II, son of Jaitugi and grandson of Bhillama.1.
Both the inscriptions inform us that the Nikumbhavams'a belonged to the Bhaskaravams'a that is the Solar dynasty.
Now the title No. 68 of Kalasena is सततपराभूतसूर्यवंशीन्द्रसेनराज राज्यसंस्थापनदृढाङ्गीकार," meaning 'one who had undertaken firmly the task of setting up the kingdom of Indrasenaraja of the Solar dynasty. Considering the fact that Lakhumadevi belonged to the Nikumbha family we can reasonably indentify the Suryavams'iya Indrasenaraja with. Indraraja in the geneology of the Nikumbha family. If we take the words 'satata-parābhūta' as qualifying Indrasenaraja it would mean 'Indrasenarāja who was constantly overpowered,' in which case Kalasena becomes a contemporary of Indrasenarāja. This would put Kalasenat in the twelfth century A. D. But this is not possible in case of our Kalasena who is a claimant to the authorship of Samgitamīmāmsā, as we shall see. We should therefore, as we have done, take 'satataparabhūta' as qualifying 'rajya' and understand it to suggest that the kingdom was known in the time of Kalasena as one of Indrasenarāja who must have remained famous till then. This Kingdom of Indrasenarāja after him might have been constantly overpowered by the Musalman kings and Kalasena as a son-in-law or a brother-in-law of the family might have helped it to retain or regain the kingdom.2
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The earlier time-limit of the author of Sangitamīmāṁsā :
Before we consider the names of some of the rulers whom Kalasena is supposed to have subdued, we should fix the earlier time limit of the author of Samgitamimāṁsā. It would help in identifying some of these rulers. As we have said, whoever wrote the Samgitamimamsā he was well-versed in the Samgitaratnakara of S'arigadeva and its commentary Kalanidhi by Kalliñatha, S'arngdeva lived in the time of Yadava King Singhana (1240-1247 A. D.). Kumbhakarna, as we shall see, reigned between 1433 to 1468 A, D. The Samgitaratnakara was thus about two centuries old for Kumbhakarna, and must have reached a position of authority, so that one can understand its being utilized by him. But the adoption in Nrtyaratnakos'a (p. 124) of a passage from
1. See the geneology of the Yadavas of Devagiri (No. XVIII), Sources of Karnatak History Vol. I., S. Srikantha Sastri, M.A. The University of Mysore, Mysore, 1940.
2. See B. G. Vol. XII. Khanedesh pp. 241-42 and B. G. Vol. XVI Nasik p. 186 and foot-note 1.
3. S. R. Anandas'rema Series p. 40.,
