It was probably by aiding Bhíma against Jayantasimha that the Vághelás rose to power. According to the chroniclers the Vághelás succeeded in the natural course of things. According to the Sukritasankírtana Kumárapála appeared to his grandson Bhíma and directed him to appoint as his heir-apparent Víradhavala son of Lavanaprasáda and grandson of Arnorája the son of Dhavala king of Bhimapalli. Next day in court, in the presence of his nobles, when Lavanaprasáda and Víradhavala entered the king said to Lavanaprasáda: Your father Arnorája seated me on the throne: you should therefore uphold my power: in return I will name your son Víradhavala my heir-apparent. [635] The author of the Kírtikaumudí notes that Arnorája son of Dhavala, opposing the revolution against Bhíma, cleared the kingdom of enemies, but at the cost of his own life. The author then describes Lavanaprasáda and Víradhavala as kings. But as he gives no account of their rise to supremacy, it seems probable that they usurped the actual power from Bhíma though till A.D. 1242 (S. 1295) Bhíma continued to be nominal sovereign. Bhíma's queen was Líládeví the daughter of a Chohán chief named Samarasimha. [636] CHAPTER III. THE VÁGHELÁS (A.D. 1219-1304). [Arnorája, A.D. 1170-1200.] While Bhímadeva II. (A.D. 1179-1242) struggled to maintain his authority in the north, the country between the Sábarmatí and the Narbadá in the south as well as the districts of Dholká and Dhandhuká in the south-west passed to the Vághelás a branch of the Solankis sprung from Ánáka or Arnorája, the son of the sister of Kumárapála's (A.D. 1143-1173) mother. In return for services to Kumárapála, [637] Ánáka, with the rank of a noble or Sámanta, had received the village of Vyághrapalli or Vághelá, the Tiger's Lair, about ten miles south-west of Anahilaváda. It is from this village that the dynasty takes its name of Vághela. [Lavanaprasáda, A.D. 1200-1233.] Ánáka's son Lavanaprasáda, who is mentioned as a minister of Bhímadeva II. (A.D. 1179-1242) [638] held Vághelá and probably Dhavalagadha or Dholká about thirty miles to the south-west. The Kírtikaumudí or Moonlight of Glory, the chief cotemporary chronicle, [639] describes Lavanaprasáda as a brave warrior, the slayer of the chief of Nadulá the modern Nándol in Márwár. "In his well-ordered realm, except himself the robber of the glory of hostile kings, robbers were unknown. The ruler of Málava invading the kingdom turned back before the strength of Lavanaprasáda. The southern king also when opposed by him gave up the idea of war." The ruler of Málava or Málwa referred to was Sohada or Subhatavarman. [640] The southern king was the Devagiri Yádava Singhana II. (A.D. 1209-1247). [641]