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| name = Arjunavarman<br />
| title = Tri-vidhi-vira-chudamani<br />
| succession = King of [[Malwa]]<br />
| reign = {{circa|1210|1215 CE}}<br />
| predecessor = [[Subhatavarman]]<br />
| successor = [[Devapala (Paramara dynasty)|Devapala]]<br />
| dynasty = [[Paramara dynasty|Paramara]]<br />
}}<br />
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{{location map~ |India Madhya Pradesh |lat=23.294|N |long=76.981|E |label=Pipliya Nagar|position=left}}<br />
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'''Arjunavarman''' (reigned c. 1210-1215 CE) was an Indian king from the [[Paramara dynasty]], who ruled in the [[Malwa]] region of central India.<br />
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== Military career ==<br />
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Arjuna succeeded his father [[Subhatavarman]], and invaded the kingdom of the [[Chaulukya]]s of [[Gujarat]]. The 14th century writer [[Merutunga]] calls him the "destroyer of [[Gujarat]]". Arjuna defeated Jayanta-simha (or Jaya-simha), who had usurped the Solanki throne for a brief period. The 1211 CE Piplianagar grant of Arjuna refers to his victory over Jayanta, so Arjuna's Gujarat invasion must have happened before this time. An inscription from [[Bhopal]] indicates that he had reached [[Bharuch]] by 1213 CE. The Dhar ''[[prashasti]]'' inscription states that he defeated Jayasimha in the Parva mountain valley (possibly [[Pavagadh]]). It also states that Arjuna captured Jayanta's daughter Jayashri, and fell in love with her. According to Asoke Majumdar, this suggests that Jayanta made peace with the Paramaras through a marriage alliance.{{sfn|Majumdar|1956|p=148}}<br />
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When the [[Seuna (Yadava) dynasty|Yadava]] ruler [[Simhana]] invaded [[Lata (region)|Lata]] (southern Gujarat), Arjuna's [[Chahamana]] general Salakhanasimha defeated him.{{sfn|Jain|1972|p=370}} Later, the Yadava king sent another force led by his general Kholeshvara to Lata. This second invasion resulted in the Paramara feudatory's defeat.{{sfn|Jain|1972|p=371}}<br />
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Arjunavarman married the Hoysala princess Sarvakala, who was probably a daughter of grand-daughter of the Hoysala king [[Veera Ballala II|Ballala]]. Simhana's invasion of the Hoysala territory appears to have led a fresh conflict between the Paramaras and the Yadavas. Simhana invaded the Paramara kingdom in 1215, and according to the later Yadava court poet [[Hemadri]], this invasion resulted in the defeat and death of Arjunavarman. The veracity of Hemadri's claim is doubtful, as the 1222 Bahal inscription mentions Arjunavarman's defeat, but not his death.{{sfn|A. S. Altekar|1960|p=534}} The [[Tilavalli|Tiluvalli]] inscription also states that Simhana humbled the lord of Malwa.{{sfn|T. V. Mahalingam|1957|p=145}}<br />
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== Other activities ==<br />
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Arjuna assumed the title ''Trividhivīracūḍāmaṇi''. In his inscriptions, Arjunavarman claimed to be an reincarnation of his illustrious ancestor king [[Bhoja]].<ref>E. Hultzsch, ‘Dhar Prasasti of Arjunavarman: Parijatamanjari-Natika by Mandana’, ''Epigraphica Indica'' 8 (1905-06): 96-122. Available online in Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1207197.</ref> He was a patron of scholars, and himself an accomplished poet.{{sfn|Jain|1972|p=371}} He is best known from a eulogistic inscription of his reign which takes the form of play called the ''Vijayaśrīnāṭikā'', composed by Madana, the king's preceptor. In this work, which is not known from manuscript sources, Madana makes Arjunavarman the chief protagonist.<ref>S. K. Dikshit, ed., ''Pārijātamañjarī alias Vijayaśrī by Rāja-Guru Madana alias Bāla-Sarasvatī'' (Bhopal, 1968). Available online in Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.375588.</ref><br />
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Arjunavarman's 1211 CE inscription, found at Piplianagar near [[Shajapur]], records the donation of a village.{{sfn|Trivedi|1991|pp=162-163}} A 1213 inscription, discovered at [[Sehore]] (and possibly originally found at Piplianagar) also records a village grant.{{sfn|Trivedi|1991|pp=166-167}} Another inscription from Sehore, dated 1215 CE, records a land grant to a [[Brahmin]].{{sfn|Trivedi|1991|pp=168-169}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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=== Bibliography ===<br />
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* {{cite book |author=A. S. Altekar |author-link=Anant Sadashiv Altekar |editor=Ghulam Yazdani |title=The Early History of the Deccan Parts |volume=VIII: Yādavas of Seuṇadeśa |year=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/531155 |oclc=59001459 |access-date=24 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828105828/http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/531155 |archive-date=28 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Kailash Chand |last=Jain |title=Malwa Through the Ages, from the Earliest Times to 1305 A.D |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3O7q7cU7k0C&pg=PA354 |year=1972 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0824-9 }}<br />
* {{cite book|first=Asoke Kumar |last=Majumdar |title=Chaulukyas of Gujarat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffAdAAAAMAAJ |year=1956 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Harihar Vitthal Trivedi |title=Inscriptions of the Paramāras (Part 2) |series=Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume VII: Inscriptions of the Paramāras, Chandēllas, Kachchapaghātas, and two minor dynasties |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8B4LAQAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=[[Archaeological Survey of India]] |doi=10.5281/zenodo.1451755 |ref={{harvid|Trivedi|1991}} }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=T. V. Mahalingam |author-link=T. V. Mahalingam |chapter=The Seunas of Devagiri |editor=R. S. Sharma |title=A Comprehensive history of India: A.D. 985-1206 |volume=4 (Part 1) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahFuAAAAMAAJ |year=1957 |publisher=Indian History Congress / People's Publishing House | isbn=978-81-7007-121-1 }}<br />
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