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Jhalawar is called Haḍauti Pradeśa. For centuries the rulers of Bundi played a prominent part in this region and the mughal Empire.
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Jaina Granibs Bhandars in Rajasthan.
Bundi also remained a literary centre for a long time specially in 17th 18th, and 19th centuries Padmanabha, a Rajasthani poet of 17th century has given a description of the city in his work Yasodhara Caupai :
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बूदी इन्द्रपुरी जखिपुरी कि कुबेरपुरी,
रिद्धि सिद्धि मरी द्वारिका मी घरी घर मे । धौलहर धाम घर घर मे विचित्र वाम,
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नर कामदेव जैसे सेवे मुखसर में । वापी बाग बारूण बाजार बीथी विद्या वेद,
विबुध विनाद बानो बोले मुखि नर मे । तहा करे राज राव भावस्यघ महाराज,
हिन्दु धर्म लाज पातिसाहि श्राज कर मे ।
Dila Rama was another Jaina Hindi writer of the 18th century. He wrote a description of Bundi in his Dila Rama Vilas and Atmadwadası which was completed in Samwat 1768 (1711 A.D) as follows
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बन उपवन चहु नदन से मधि, गिर मेर नदी गंग सम सोमहि बढावति । अतुल विलास मे वसय सर्व धनपति' धन 'मोन भोन रंभातिय गावति । महल विमान समा सुम्मधि राजं, राव बुद्ध छ जिम जाके निति लछिमनावनी । ग्रन्थनि में मुनियन नैननि को प्रमिलाम, पूजत लखे से प्रेमी बूंदी अमरावती ॥
Dila Rama in his next work "Vrat Vidhana Raso3" a work of describes 1710 AD the city in the following way :
ग्रहो बूदी जी नम्र हाड तता थान राज करे बुर्षासह कुल मानु । पौन छत्तीस लीला करे, गढ अरू कोट वन उपवन वास । महल तलाब देवल छत्रा, श्रावक धर्म चने बहु भाय ॥
1 Amer Sästra Bhandar, Jaipur
In the end of the 18th century there was again a poet named Hiră who composed Nemi-Vyāhalo in the year 1791 A. D. At the end of his work he has written some lines about Bundi which run as follows:
2 10 3 Ibid.
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