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that Samarasimha was followed by his soldiers numbering twelve thousand, captured the Gōri king, but was unfortunately killed in the battle. Reference is made to a Bhasha work, called here Räsä (perhaps the same as Prithviraja-raso), in which, it is stated, the details of this battle are given. Samarasimha's son was Rävala Karna. With him ends the list of the twentysix Ravalas.1
Rävala Karna had two sons: Rävala Mahapa and Rāhapa. The first is said to have ruled as a king at Düngarapura (Dungarpur in Rajputānā). The second, it is narrated, went to Mamḍavara (Mandor in Jodhpur State and ancient capital of Marwar) by order of his father and the prediction of a soothsayer. There he vanquished Mōkalasimha, and brought him as a captive to his father Karna. The latter deprived Mōkalasimha of his title of Rana which he bestowed on his son Rāhapa who was later on better known as Ränä or Ränä (sic)) only. This Rahapa, being blessed by Sarasalya, a learned Brāhmaṇa of the Palliväla (Päliväl Brahmans of Rajputänä) family, ruled at Chitrakūta. He also came to be known as Sisodiya from the fact that he had formerly dwelt for some time at Sisödanagara. Rānā Rāhapa's descendants bore the same viruda of Ränä.
The last two verses (35 and 36) give the genealogy of the poet, which is the same as found in the end of the slab II above. The record closes with the date of the consecration of the Rajasamudra, namely Sam 1732, Maghi 15 (i.e., Magha paurṇimā).
Slab V; Canto IV
The fourth canto opens with an invocation of the tamala tree on the bank of the river Yamuna and then the genealogy is continued. His (Rahapa's) son was Ränä Narapati; then came from father to son, Jasa (Yaśaḥ) karṇa, Nagapala, Punyapala, Prithvimalla, Bhuvanasimha, Bhimasimha, Jayasimha and Lakshmasimha who bore the title of Gadhamandalika apparently because he was the conqueror of the fort of Mandalgadh, and whose younger brother was Ratnasi, the husband of Padmini, for whose sake Allavadīna (Ala-ud-din Khalji) besieged Chitraküṭa. Lakshmasimhha with his twelve brothers and seven sons fought and died in this battle; only one of his sons namely Ajēsi survived, who succeeded him to the throne. Lakshmasimha's eldest son was Arasi who died with his father and whose son Hamira held the reins of the kingdom (after Ajēsī). Hamira was well known for his liberality and as one who showed the holy river Ganges on his forehead. It was again he who built the black (stone) image of Ekalinga (Siva) with four faces, accompanied by Syāmā (Pārvati), after the crystal figure of Sri (Lakshmi) deposited in the lake of Indrasaras had been ascertained to be lost. Hamira's son was Kshetrasimha, his son Lak hā (Lakshmanasimha) and his son Mökala. This last named had a brother called Ravata Bagha who had no children. Mōkala got a tank, named Baghēlā after his brother, constructed at Nagahrada (with the wish that his brother Bagha be blessed with a child). Mōkala also built a marble enclosure to the temple
1 This list closely follows the Khyats with the exception of Puñjaraja whose name is omitted in the latter and Ratnasimha (I) who comes between Samarasimha and Karpa. See Ojha, ibid., Vol. I, p. 92, n. l.
This is according to the Khyats and not borne out by authentic history. bee ibid., Vol. I, pp. 205 f. For details, see ibid., p. 206.
The name of Dinakara found in the Khyats and the Jagannatharaya temple inscriptions has been omitted after Narapati apparently through oversight.
Parpapala according to the Khyats and the Jagannatharaya temple inscription.
From Arisimha downwards the genealogy is in keeping with that found in reliable records.
Tradition, however, connects the installation of the Chaturmukhalinga with Maharasi Rayamalla one of whose inscriptions is found at Ekalingajt. In the Mokaljt temple inscription Hammira is stated to have built a temple and a tank (see Bhavnagar Inscriptions, p. 67, v. 16). Ojha (ibid., p. 206) identifies this temple with the temple of Annapurna at Chitor and the tank with the one in the vicinity of the temple. It was from the time of Hammira that Udaipur came under the Steodās.
These are also mentioned in other records such as the Kumbhalgarh and Sringtrishi inscriptions.
