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बुद्धि-विलास
genealogical tree of his family begining from Rajendra and closing with the mention of Sivarāma (1904-5 A.D.)
Vidyā Dhara was appointed 'Diwan' after the death of his maternal uncle Kishan Rama. Later on, when Sawai Madho Singh ascended the throne in 1752, Vidya Dhara withdrew himself from the scene. He earned the fury of Madho Singh who confiscated all his possessions, and the illustrious family vanished from the stage of local history.
The BV makes no mention of Vidyā Dhara, because it is more a description of a general nature. It was left to the interested to fill up the blank. The 'Isvara-Vilasa-Kavya'f by Kțşņa Kavi is dated 1744, written hardly a year after the death of Jai Singh. In the tenth canto (1) of his work, he has clearly mentioned Vidya Dhara.
"बंगालयप्रवरवैदिकगौडविप्रः क्षिप्रप्रसादसुलभः सुमुखः कलावान् ।
विद्याधरो जयति मंत्रिवरो नृपस्य राजाधिराजपरिपूजितशुद्धबुद्धिः ॥"३८॥ There are many more passages in this work that remind us of Vidyā Dhara and his ancestory.
Girdhārī wrote the 'Bhöjana-Sāra' in his capacity as the courtpoet of Jai Singh. This work is dated A.D. 1739 and is yet unpublished.* The 182nd couplet of this work on dietetics quotes the name of Vidyā Dhara as the architect of the new city.
पुरा करें : बहु हरष करि, मन महिं मोद वढाय ।
विद्याधर सों बोलि कहि, सहर सु एक बसाय ॥ Vidyā Dhara thus occupied a significant position in the history of Jaipur. Col. James Tod, has spoken of his genius as an adept architect and astrologer. He has fallen into the error of holding Vidyā Dhara as the follower of Jainism, and a Jain by birth as well. He writes, “Vidya Dhara, one of his chief coadjutators in his astronomical pursuits, and whose genius planned the city of Jaipur, was a Jain, and claimed spiritual descent from the celebrated Hemachandracarya, of Nahruala, minister and spiritual guide of his namesake, the great Siddhrāja Jai Singh.”
The annalist does not mention the source of his information. This is in brief the initial story of what our author has prefered to
Pub. in the Rajasthan Puratana Granthmala' no. 29. * Preserved in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona.
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