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SEVADI COPPER-PLATES OF CHAHAMANA RATNAPALA.
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of warriors, the Chahumana race." This fact is further corroborated by an inscription where we read that "there was the hero Chāhamāna, & sonrce of joy to the great Rishi Vatsa.' Professor Kielhorn also points out that " according to verse 12 of the Bijoli rock inscription of Somēśvara (No. 154 of his Northern Lis!) Samanta, the first Chāhumana chief, was born in the Vatsa-gõtra at Ahichchhatrapara." The current belief that the four races of Paramāras, Chalukyas, Chāhamānas and Pratihāras sprang from the agni-kunda receives no support from this inscription.
The genealogy unfolded by our inscription, is the same as that given by Prof. Kielhorn in his paper on the Chāhamábas of Naddüla, referred to above, as far as Pșith vipāla, and the name of Ratnapāladēva, the hero of our inscription, is an addition to it. But an inscription recently discovered at Mandor, when archwological excavations were being carried out ander the supervision of Dr. Marshall, reveals the name of two farther generations, viz., Rāyapāla, son of Ratnapăla, and Sahajapāla, son of Rāyapala. Before the discovery of the inscription at Mandor, it was not known whose son Rāyapāla was, though he was known to be a Chāhamana from his eight inscriptions found in the Godwar District. From these latter we further learn that Rayapala had besides Sahajapāla two other sons, viz., Rudrapāla and Amritapāla; while in another inscription of Ratnapāla (published in the Bhavanagar Prākrit and Sanskrit Inscriptions), the name of Ratnapala's son is given as Pūnapāksha, which I am inclined to read as Púrpapala. So the dynastic list would now stand as follows:
LAKSHAMANA
Sobita, lord of Dhārā
Vigrahapala
Mahendra
Baliraja
Anahilladēva
Bilaprasada
Jésaladeva or Jindarija
(1. 26)
Prithvipala
Ratnapaladēva
Rāyapala
Parpa pala
Sahajapala
Rudrapala
Amțitapala
It
1 Ep. Ind. Vol. IX, p. 79.
Ibid., p. 71. + The present inscription does not give us the relation which Vigrahapala bore to his predecessor Baliraje is taken from Kielhorn's Genealogical Table (above, Vol. IX, p. 83). * Called Jendraraja (Jinduraja) in Prof. Kielhorn's Table,
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