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No. 29.] FRAGMENTARY STONE INSCRIPTION OF QUEEN UDDALLADEVI: V.S. 1294. 187
(U. P.) from where after a short time his son's son Sihāji is said to have gone to Mārwär and with the assistance of the Brahmins of that place to have established a principality of his own after defeating the Muhammadan marauders of Multan. Tod also records that in 8. 1268 (A.D-1212), eighteen years subsequent to the overthrow of Kanauj, Siahji and Setram, grandsons of its last monarch, abandoned the land of their birth, and with two hundred retainers, the wreck of their vassalage, journeyed westward to the desert............. His date regarding the final overthrow of Kanauj and the exact relation of Saitrām and Sihāji may be accepted with a grain of salt, nevertheless the fact that Sihāji moved towards Mirwar remains unquestioned.
Mahamandadēva, who was certainly a Hindu ruler, adopted this Muslim-like name", obviously to please the sensibilities of his Muslim overlord (Iltutmish or Queen Raziyya) of Delhi. This is by no means a solitary instance of the assumption of a Muhammadan name by a Hindu ruler. We also know that a Chauhān king of Ranathambhor (c. A.D. 1283-1301) called himself Hathmira (हमौरभूपतिरविव(द)त भूतधाचा). which is a Muslim name' and was used by certain Sultans of Delhi on their coins.
TEXT. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- - 2 न गुणेन भान्ति भुवने सधैं [तया न्यस्तास्तस्मा -..-.- . 3 त्वविचलं राज्यं प्रशास्त्वद्भुतम्' ॥ [१] सामन्तराजतिलकः प्र[थि]त: [थि]4 व्या श्रीलक्ष्मणो [...] लक्ष्मणतुस्वकीर्तिः । याटपक्ष इह रा[ण] 5 कचक्रवर्ती याथार्थ्यतः खलु तथा स च धर्मदेवः ॥ [२] श्रीविन्ध्ये8 वरशूलिनोद्भुततरः सम्बाक्लोशोभितः प्रासादोय[मने7 कभ[ख]चितो10 नानापताकान्वितः । य[च्छण दिवंस्पृ[शा ग]8 तिरो विन्ध्यो रवेरुस्थितो व्याजाद्य(द्यो) [ध्वजपंक्तिपातित[नति]9 भी(भी)तो गुरोर्खाक्यतः ॥ [३] प्रासादीयं तयाकारि श्रीविन्ध्येश्व10 रधूर्जटेः । पुत्रपौत्रादिसम्पत्य (त्यै) पितृणान्तारणाय च ॥ [*]
1 Ren's Prdeina Bhārata ke Rajavainia (in Hindi), Vol. III, pp. 114-115 and 118-119. * Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (ed. Crooke), Vol. II, p. 940.
Bhandarkar List of Inscriptions of N. India, No. 682 wherein Muhammad ibn Tughlaq has been called Mahamanda Sahi.
Above. Vol. XIX, p. 50, 1. 8. (This was also the name bome by a ruler of Chitor.-Ed.] . Badaun Inscription of Lakhanapāla, above, Vol. I, p. 62, n. 5, and Mahoba Inscription, ibid., p. 221.
.S. Lanepoole : Coins of the Sultans of Delhi in British Museum. Coins Nos. 9, 24-26, 32-33, 38-42, 51-52, 63-66, 70-72 and 96-98.
7 Metre : Sardūlavikridila. * Three syllables have been left out probably by the engraver through oversight
.A. G. reads Vermadeau. Sletre: Vasantatilak). 10 May be [चिती in which case the translation of अनेकभदरचिती would be + made of or containing much gold'.
11 Metre : Anushfubh.
