[83] The Dvyáśraya does not say that Kumárapála’s sister was married to Ána. [↑]
[84] This was a common title of the Siláhára kings. Compare Bombay Gazetteer, XIII. 437 note 1. [↑]
[85] Ámbaḍá is his proper name. It is found Sanskritised into Ámrabhaṭa and Ambaka. [↑]
[86] This is the Káverí river which flows through Chikhli and Balsár. The name in the text is very like Karabená the name of the same river in the Násik cave inscriptions (Bom. Gaz. XVI. 571) Kaláviní and Karabená being Sanskritised forms of the original Káveri. Perhaps the Káveri is the Akabarou of the Periplus (a.d. 247). [↑]
[87] Sausara or Sásar seems the original form from which Samara was Sanskritised. Sásar corresponds with the Mehr name Cháchar. [↑]
[88] The Kumárapálacharita says that Samara was defeated and his son placed on the throne. [↑]
[89] The translation of the inscription runs: Steps made by the venerable Ámbaka, Saṃvat 1222. According to the Kumárapálaprabandha the steps were built at a cost of a lákh of drammas a dramma being of the value of about 5 annas. According to the Prabandhachintámaṇi an earthquake occurred when the king was at Girnár on his way to Somanátha. The old ascent of Girnár was from the north called Chhatraśilá that is the umbrella or overhanging rocks. Hemáchárya said if two persons went up together the Chhatraśilá rocks would fall and crush them. So the king ordered Ámrabhaṭa to build steps on the west or Junágaḍh face at a cost of 63 lákhs of drammas. [↑]
[90] The site of Báhaḍapura seems to be the ruins close to the east of Pálitána where large quantities of conch shell bangles and pieces of brick and tile have been found. [↑]
[91] This would appear to be the Kalachuri king Gayá Karṇa whose inscription is dated 902 of the Chedi era that is a.d. 1152. As the earliest known inscription of Gayá Karṇa’s son Narasiṃhadeva is dated a.d. 1157 (Chedi 907) the death of Gayá Karṇa falls between a.d. 1152 and 1157 in the reign of Kumárapála and the story of his being accidentally strangled may be true. [↑]
[92] So many marriages on one day points to the people being either Kaḍva Kunbis or Bharváḍs among whom the custom of holding all marriages on the same day still prevails. [↑]