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[Vol. XXX along with a sum of Rs. 20,000 as well as a cow-elephant. Phatēchanda being filled with pity levied a light tribute. He brought Pratäpasiṁha with him and produced him before Rājasimha. In this way Phathochanda became a favourite of Rajasimha.
Akhērāja, the Rāva of Siröhi, was already loyal to Rājasimha. Thus Rājasimha kept him in subjection through affection only.
In the year 1716, in the month of Phālguna, the king got a gate with heavily nailed doors constructed at the great ghāt of Damhabări (Dēbäri) adjoining the hill.
In the year 1717, the king Rājasimha, accompanied by a huge army, went to Krishnagadha (former Kishangarh State) and married Räthöda Rūpasimha's daughter who was intended to be married to the lord of Dilli.
In the year 1719, the king subjugated the country of Mövala' after destroying the Minā forces. The whole of Mēvala he gave to his subordinate chiefs.
In the year 1720, Ranavata Rāmasimha, by the order of Rājasinha, went to Sirõhi with an army and there released Rāva Akhērāja, who was placed in captivity by the latter's son Udayabhana and restored his territory to him.
In the year 1721, on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Mārgasirsha, king Rājasimha gave away his daughter Ajavakūmvari in marriage to Bhāvasiriha, son of the Bigholā chief Anūpasimha, the lord of Bandhava(Bandhogarh in the former Rewa State), marrying at the same time ninety-eight girls of his relatives to various high chiefs. On that occasion king Rājasimha dined together with the Kshatriyas of a lower rank, namely his son-in-law Bhavasimha and his relatives, who then proclaimed: “We have been purified by eating Bijasimha's food which is us holy as that received from the deity Jagannatharaya". The king then gave gifts of horses, elephants and ornaments to the bridegrooms.
In the year 1721, in the month of Mägha, on the occasion of a solar eclipse (Friday, 6th January, 1665 A.D.), the king performed gifts of Hiranyakāmadhēnu, costing Rs. 2,000, and silver tula and made a gift of an elephant called Gajamauktika.
In the year 1725, on the 10th day of the bright half of the month of Māgha, on the consecration of a tank at the village of Badi,' the king performed a silver tulā gift, naming the tank as Janasāgara. On that occasion he gave to the priest Garibadāsa two villages, Gunahamdā and Dēvapura. The digging of the tank cost 680,000 rupees. This charitable deed he performed in honour of his late mother Janādē (lit. he assigned the merit to his mother). Also, on that very day, at Udayapura, at the instance of the Rāņā (Rājasimha), (his son) the young prince Jayasitha, performed the consecration ceremony of another tank, called Ramgasaras, giving great gifts.
V: 53 gives the genealogy (Udayasimha, Pratāpa, Amarsimha, Karṇasimha, Jagatsimba, Rājasimha and Jayasimha) and states that the last mentioned caused the present prasasti to be engraved on stone.
1 See Ojha, ibid., Vol. II, pp. 540-41.
Her name was Charumatl. This marriage of Rajasimha enraged Aurangzeb who is alleged to have separated the parganas of Gayaspur and Basăvar from Udaipur State and given them to Harisimha, the Raval of Devalvs See ibid., PP. 541,42.
* Southern portion of Mewar. Ojba, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 543. • See ibid., p. 543.
. It may be pointed out that Bandhavēša is one of the epithets of the rulers of the Rewă house even at present,
The temple of this deity is at Udaipur. * To the west of Udaipur. Daughter of Rathor Rajasimha of Modta.
