[Bhíma I. A.D. 1022-1064.] Durlabha was succeeded by his nephew Bhíma the son of Durlabha's younger brother Nága Rája. The author of the Dvyásraya says that Durlabha wishing to retire from the world offered the kingdom to his nephew Bhíma; that Bhíma declined in favour of his father Nága Rája; that Nága Rája refused; that Durlabha and Nága Rája persuaded Bhíma to take the government; and that after installing Bhíma the two brothers died together. Such a voluntary double death sounds unlikely unless the result was due to the machinations of Bhíma. The Prabandhachintámani gives Bhíma a reign of fifty-two years from A.D. 1022 to 1074 (S. 1078-1130), while the Vichárasreni reduces his reign to forty-two years placing its close in A.D. 1064 (S. 1120). Forty-two years would seem to be correct as another copy of the Prabandhachintámani has 42. Two copperplates of Bhíma are available one dated A.D. 1030 (S. 1086) eight or nine years after he came to the throne, the other from Kacch in A.D. 1037 (S. 1093). Bhíma seems to have been more powerful than either of his predecessors. According to the Dvyásraya his two chief enemies were the kings of Sindh and of Chedí or Bundelkhand. He led a victorious expedition against Hammuka the king of Sindh, who had conquered the king of Sivasána and another against Karna king of Chedí who paid tribute and submitted. The Prabandhachintámani has a verse, apparently an old verse interpolated, which says that on the Málwa king Bhoja's death, while sacking Dhárápuri, Karna took Bhíma as his coadjutor, and that afterwards Bhíma's general Dámara took Karna captive and won from him a gold mandapiká or canopy and images of Ganesa and Nílakanthesvara Mahádeva. Bhíma is said to have presented the canopy to Somanátha. When Bhíma was engaged against the king of Sindh, Kulachandra the general of the Málwa king Bhoja with all the Málwa feudatories, invaded Anahilaváda, sacked the city, and sowed shell-money at the gate where the time-marking gong was sounded. So great was the loss that the 'sacking of Kulachandra' has passed into a proverb. Kulachandra also took from Anahilaváda an acknowledgment of victory or jayapatra. On his return Bhoja received Kulachandra with honour but blamed him for not sowing salt instead of shell-money. [536] He said the shell-money is an omen that the wealth of Málwa will flow to Gujarát. An unpublished inscription of Bhoja's successor Udayáditya in a temple at Udepur near Bhilsá confirms the above stating that Bhíma was conquered by Bhoja's officers. [537]