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[VOL. XXX away Khanakhana's wives and honourably returned them to Khanakhana. Sekhū wondered at that. Afterwards Šēkhu became the king Jahamgira of Dilli and came again to fight with Pratapa whom he encircled. Leaving behind his son Khurrama (Prince Khurram), Jahamgira returned to Delhi. Afterwards Pratapa met the Sulatana Chagtā Sērima, paternal uncle of the king of Dilli, who was mounted on an elephant in battle at the pass of Devera, where a Solamki paḍiharaka (pratihāra) chopped off two legs of the elephant, and Pratapa himself pierced the temple of the animal. The elephant fell down and Serima then mounted a horse. Then Pratapa's son Amara pierced Serima along with his horse with a spear. At Pratapa's command Amara pulled out the spear from the body of Serima. Sērima desired to see the warrior who struck him like that whereupon Pratapa showed him a soldier. Serima said it was not the man. Then Pratapa showed him his son Amara whom Serima recognised and praised. Then eightyfour sthānapālas (chiefs) went to Kōsithala (Kosithal thikānā in Udaipur State), etc., and Pratapa dwelt at Udayapura, where he once presented his turban and some money to a bard. This bard later happened to go to see the king of Dilli. At that time he took off that turban from his head and kept it in his hand. When he saluted the king of Dilli in that manner, the Sultan asked what it was and was told that as the turban had belonged to Rānā Pratapa he did not keep it on his head. The emperor understood the implication and was pleased. Thus Rānā Pratapa became famous among both Hindus and Muslims as an 'unbendable' hero.
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The canto thus closes with the glorification of Kana Pratapa.
The language in the latter half of the canto is not explicit. It presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the wellknown events connected with the life of the Mahārāṇā as narrated in bardic chronicles, and thus summarises a number of events in a disconnected manner.
Slab VI; Canto V
After Rāṇā Pratapa, his son Amarasimha came to the throne, some details of whose history have already been given above, such as his part in his father's fight against Manasimha, his taking away of Khanakhana's wives and his killing of Sulatana Serima. He also fought with Khurrama, son of Jahamgira and afterwards with Abadullahakhana. He was surrounded by twentyfour chiefs (sthānēsvaras). He killed Kayan.akhana (Qaim Khan), a servant of the king of Dilli, at Umṭālā (Untālā, 20 miles north-east of Udaipur). There he destroyed Mälapura. His son Karnasimha destroyed Sirōmja (Sironj in the former Tonk State), Malava and Dhamdhēmrā (perhaps Dhanera in the former Indore State), and got much booty. Then at the command of Jahamgīra, Khurram entered into a treaty with Amarasimha who came down from his place, Udayapura, to Gōghūmdā (20 miles north-west of Udaipur) whereto Khurrama also came. There they both met in a worthy manner and contracted friendship. Rānā Amarasimha dwelt in Udayapura where
1 Mirza Khankhana, son of Bairam Khan. This is also well known from the chronicles. See Tod (Crooke's ed.), Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, p. 398.
2 The name of Chagtă Serima, who is mentioned here as uncle of the king of Delhi, is not met with in the Akbarnamā and Tüzuk-Jahangiri. As has been pointed out by Deviprasad, he was, perhaps, an officer of the Moghul army whom the writer of the record has inadvertently called as uncle of the king of Delhi (ibid., p. 33, note). Bhandarkar has inadvertently identified him with Salim Jahangir (List of North Indian Inscriptions, p. 137), for in the present record he is called Jahangir's uncle. We know from Muslim records that Jahangir was too young to join the battle and that the king of Delhi at this time was Akbar and not Jahangir.
This pass is two miles to the west of Dewir in the south-easternmost part of Ajmer-Mārwārā.
This event is also mentioned by Munshi Deviprasad in his Maharana Sri Pratapasimhaji kā jivan-charstra. See Ojha, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 486, n. 2.
Abdulla Khan Firoz Jang, a commander of Jahangir's army, who according to Muslin historians defeated Karan, the son of Rănă Amarsing in 1611.
See Ojha, ibid., Vol. I, pp. 492-93. 7 See ibid., pp. 496-97.
