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APPÉNDIX] RAJAPRASASTI İNSCRIPTION OF UDAIPUR
111 Apart from the above, enormous additional expenditure was incurred voluntarily by various feudatory chiefs and freeholders especially in the digging work.
According to another reckoning, the total expenditure by the king represents a larger figure of 1,05,07,608 rupees.
On the day of his birth-day anniversary in the year 1734, Rājasimha performed two great gifts, Kalpadruma and Hiranyāśva, comprising two hundred tolas and eighty tolas of gold respectively.
In the month of Srāvaņa in that year, Rājasimha went up to Jilavāda, rescued Vairisala, the Rāva of Sirõhi, who was harrassed by enemies, and reinstated him as the ruler of Sirõhi. From him Rajasimha accepted one lakh of rupees and five villages, Köraţā and others. Besides, & gold pitcher belonging to the Rānā (Rajasimha) had been stolen and found its way to Vairisāla's land, and as compensation for that Rajasimha took from him (Vairisäla) & sum of fifty thousand rupees.
Verses 33-41 contain a panegyric of Rājasimha, verse 42 his lineage from Udayasimha down to Rājasimha's son Jayasimha, as in some other cantos, and likewise the last two verses the genealogy of the poet.
Slab XXIII; Canto XXII On the 11th day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra in the year 1735, Prince Jayasimha, at the instance of his father, Rajasimha, started on tour. First he came to Ajamõru (Ajmer). Then he went to Dilli to see Aurangzeb, the lord of Dilli. He met him two krokas this side of Dillī in a camp. The Emperor welcomed him and presented him with a pearl necklace, brocade, an elephant and horses. The Emperor also gave similar gifts to the prominent men who accompanied Jayasimha, namely the Jhālā Chandrasēna, the priest Garībadāsa and several Thakkuras.
From there Jayasimha went to the Ganges where he took bath, worshipped Siva Gaņayuktēsvara and performed a silver tulā, and made gifts of an elephant and a horse.
In the month of Jyēshtha, Jayasimha performed pilgrimage of Vğindāvana and Mathurā.
On the 11th day of the dark fortnight of Pausha in the year 1736, the Emperor of Dilli came to Mēvāda. First, his son Akbar and Tahabara Khana (Tahawar Khan) came with their armies to Rajanagara where their men committed atrocities. There Sakta of the Saktāvata clan, son of the Pūrävat Sabalasimha and brother of Muhakamasimha, gave a terrific battle. A certain Chömdāvata warrior and twenty soldiers gave their lives in this clash. Thereupon the Rāņā ordered the Kshatriya warriors of the great Dahavári ghatta (Dēbāri pass) and other ghattas to join the struggle. They came with fire-arms. On the other side the Emperor of Dilli also came to the Dabavári ghaļļa breaking open its portals, was there for twenty-one days and then secretly reached Udayapura.
Afterwards Akbar also came to Udayapura. Tahabara Khana followed him while his work was done by his followers. Akbar saw there the god Ekalinga. When he was near Ambēri and Chirava ghattas,' Jhālā Pratāpa of Karkētapura (Karget) seized two elephants from the Emperor's army and presented them to the Rāņā.
1 For there two mahadanus, soe Hēmädri, op. cit., Danakhanda, pp. 245, 277. * See Ojha, op. cit., p. 855.
The reference is obviously to the Siva at Gadhmuktēsvar on the Ganges about 45 miles from Delhi in the Meerut District.
See Ojha, op. cit., p. 856. It may be interesting to note that on the southern side of Govindaji's temple at Brindāvan there is a pillared Chhatri 'of very handsome and harmonious design' erected on the 5th day of the dark half of Karttika, V.S. 1693 (1636 A.D., s.e., 40 years later than the temple itself), in the reign of Shahjahan by Rani Rambhavati, widow of Raja Bhimasimba, second son of Rana Amarasithhs of Udaipur and unclo of Rajasirha.
Ojha, (op. cit., p. 876) gives the credit to Muhakamasimha. • The villages of Ambērl and Chirwa.
