[2] Once the Yadava-Hoysala conflict subsided, and the Yadava power stabilized, Jaitugi launched a successful campaign against the Kakatiyas around 1194.
[3] The Yadava court poet Hemadri describes this victory as follows:[4] He (Jaitugi) assumed the sacrificial vow on the holy ground of the battle field, and throwing a great many kings into the fire of his prowess by means of ladles of his weapons, performed a human sacrifice by immolating a victim in the shape of the fierce Raudra, the lord of the Tailangas, and vanquished the three worlds.Jaitugi is known to have defeated the Kakatiya king Mahadeva,[5] who reached as far as the Yadava capital Devagiri, as attested by the Garavapada inscription.
According to historian A. S. Altekar, "Raudra" is a clerical mistake for "Rudra", possibly made by a scribe who was "anxious to differentiate between the two consecutive words in the expression rudrasya rudrakriteh".
[4] The Managuli (or Mangoli) inscription claims that Jaitugi defeated the Cholas, the Pandyas, the Malavas (the Paramaras of Malwa), the Latas, the Gurjaras (the Chaulukyas), the Turushkas, and the kings of Nepala and Panchala.
The Yadava general Sahadeva may have raided Malwa while the Paramara king Subhatavarman was occupied in a conflict in the Lata region.
According to historian A. S. Altekar, it is possible that Simhana was formally associated with his father's administration as the heir apparent (yuvaraja) after 1200, and ascended the throne in 1210.
[8] On the other hand, historian T. V. Mahalingam believes that Simhana succeeded Jaitugi in 1200, and had a second coronation in 1210, when he defeated the Hoysalas in the south.
This theory is based on the fact that the inscriptions which date Simhana's ascension to 1210 were found in the southern part of his kingdom.
[4][8] The Chalukyas feudatories who remained loyal to Bhillama and Jaitugi included the Nikumbha brothers Soi-deva and Hemadi-deva, who ruled in Khandesh.