Epigraphia Indica Vol 30

SR No.: 032584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 490
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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RAJAPRASASTI INSCRIPTION OF UDAIPUR
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Verse 51 gives the following genealogy : Udayasimha, Pratāpa, Amarasimha, Karna, Jagatsimha, Rājasimha and Jayasimha, and also states that Jayasimha caused the prasasti to be engraved on stone.
Verse 52 states that the poet Ranachhõdabhatta completed the Rājaprasasti kävya on the fullmoon day of the month of Māgha in the year 1732 when Rājasimha performed the consecration deremony of the Rājasamudra.
The inscription on this slab closes with the names of the masons : Urajana, Sukhadēva, Kēsă, etc.
slab VII; Canto VI In the year 1709, on the 2nd day of the dark fortnight of the month of Phālguna, Rajasimha ascended the throne, performed a silver tula-dāna, gave away his sister in marriage to Anupasimha, the eldest son of Karna of the Bhurutiyā clan, and also married seventy-one girls, daughters of his relatives, to different Kshatriya chiefs.
In the year 1710, on the 11th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Pausha, & son, named Jayasimha, was born to Rājasimha from (his wife) Sadākumvari, daughter of Rāva Indramāna of the Pamvāra (Paramāra) family of Bijholiā). The other sons of Rājasimha were Bhimasimha, Gajasimha, Sürja(ryasimha), Indrasimha, Bahādurasimha and Nārāyaṇadāsa. This last named Was & natural son. Rājasimha built himself a pleasure garden, called Sarvartuvilāsa.
In the year 1711, in the month of Asvina, Rājasimha heard of Sāhijabām's (Shahjahan's) arrival in Ajamēru (Ajmer) and of his minister Sadullahakhāna's arrival in Chitrakūta, whereupon he sent his priest Bhatta Madhusudana, a Tēlanga Brahman of the Kathömdi family, to Sadullākhāna. The Khāna addressed the Bhatta as Pandita and asked why the Rāņā had recalled Garībadana Ás well as Jhālā Rāyasimha from Delhi; the Bhatta replied that similar incidents had occurred even before. Saktasimha, brother of Rānā Pratāpa, and Rāvata Mögha' originally came to Delhi) from
1 For details, see ibid., p. 63.
Another sister was married to Bhāvasimha, son of Satrusāla Håda of Bandi. See slab VI, above, v. 29. . For further details, see Ojha, ibid., Vol. II, p. 678, notes 2-5. Situated in the south-east corner of the city of Udaipur. See above, Vol. XXIV, p. 63.
Sa'd-ullah was the Chief Minister of Shah Jahan. He was the son of Amir Bakhsh, and was born in 1609 A.D. at Chenut, a village in the Jhang District of the Punjab. He studied Persian and Arabic under Khwaja Mulláh of Labore. For his profound scholarship he was presented before Shahjahan in 1641 A.D., where he distin. guished himself as an eminent scholar and statesman. In 1645 A.D., on Ielām Khan's appointment as the Subedar of the Deocan, Sa'dullah Khan was appointed the Prime Minister. His rise was rapid and spectacular. He distinguished himself as a builder, administrator, and last but not the least as a scholar. He founded the city of Saidabad between Mathura and Agra, and it was during his prosperous regime that the Taj at Agra, the Jām-1-Masjid, the Red Fort and the Peacock Throne at Delhi were constructed. He also erected various Masjids at Agra and Lahore. Ho relieved Murad during the Mughal campaign of Balkh and Quandhär in 1640 A.D., where he gave a good account of himself as a general. In 1653 A.D. he was sent against Räņā Rājasimha, who had started extensive repairs to his fort at Chitor, where he defeated the Rājput army and conquered the fort in a remarkably short period of fiftoon days. He was the author of the following works :
1. Sa'dullah Khánl. 2. Risälă Takht-ő-taus 3. Tafsir Al Hamd Shraif. 4. Majmuā Ashiyar
5. Bādshāhnama Shāh-i-Jahånf. The gift of fourteen cities, which acoording to the Rajaprasasti was made by Shāh-Jahan to Rāņā Rājasimha through the good offices of Sa'dullah Khan, is not, however, corroborated by Muslim historians. For details see Hayat-1.saleh; Life of sa'dullah Khan, Prime Minister of Emperor Shahjahan (in Urdu) by Muhammad Ahmad (Nawalkishore Press, 1909) and Ojha, ibid., Vol. II, pp. 633 ff. and p. 634 n.4.
Son of Karnasimha and uncle of Rajasimha.. *For Råvat Mögha and his activity, see Ojha, Vol. I, pp. 604-06.