Note 27 — Chapter III · THE VÁGHELÁS (a.d. 1219–1304).

Vísaladeva, a.d. 1243–1261.Of Víradhavala’s two sons, Vírama Vísala and Pratápamalla, Vastupála favoured the second and procured his succession according to one account by forcing the old king to drink poison and preventing by arms the return to Aṇahilaváḍa of the elder brother Vírama who retired for help to Jábálipura (Jabalpur). Besides with his brother’s supporters Vísala had to contend with Tribhuvanapála the representative of the Aṇahilaváḍa Solaṅkis. Unlike his father and his grandfather Vísala refused to acknowledge an overlord. By a.d. 1243 he was established as sovereign in Aṇahilaváḍa. A later grant a.d. 1261 (Saṃvat 1317) from Kaḍi in North Gujarát shows that Aṇahilaváḍa was his capital and his title Mahárájádhirája King of Kings. According to his copperplates Vísaladeva was a great warrior, the crusher of the lord of Málwa, a hatchet at the root of the turbulence of Mewáḍ, a volcanic fire to dry up Singhaṇa of Devagiri’s ocean of men.27 Vísaladeva is further described as chosen as a husband by the daughter of Karṇáṭa28 and as ruling with success and good fortune in Aṇahilaváḍa with the illustrious Nágada as his minister.29 The bards praise Vísaladeva for lessening the miseries of a three years famine,30 and state that he built or repaired the fortifications of Vísalanagara in East and of Darbhavatí or Dabhoi in South Gujarát.