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APPENDIX] RAJAPRASASTI INSCRIPTION OF UDAIPUR
113 the pass). Thereupon Jayasimha sent his brother Bhimasimha and Bika Solanki to stop Tahabara Khana. They both destroyed many enemies and surrounded Tahabara who after eight days got away. Jayasimha had by this time come in the neighbourhood of Ghanorā. Hearing that from the other side Daltlakha (Dilabar Khan) had reached the hills of Chhappanna, Jayasimha sent Rävat Ratpasi (Chudavat) to protect the Gögūında ghatta. Then the Rana's men surrounded the ghaffa, with the result that Dalēlakhã could not escape.
Jayasimha sent Jhāla Varanā (Varasimha) to make peace with Dalēlakhã whom he said: "You are respected by the Emperor of Dilli and you have got 15,000 strong cavalry with you and you have been stopped here by one man (viz., Ratnasi), so you can easily get away." Dalolakhana tried all the three passes and found them all strongly guarded. The Nawāb Dalēlakhã, however, bribed a Brāhmaṇa by giving him 1,000 rupees and with his help escaped through another way under cover of night; but there, too, Rävata Ratnasi blocked his way. Anyhow he managed to escape from there, and came to the Emperor of Dilli. There asked by the latter as to why he returned without chasing the Rāņā, he said that through want of foodstuff daily four hundred of his men were dying and he was thus compelled to return.
Then Akbar came to make peace. Syāmasimha, son of Garibadása, the second son of Råņā Karnasimha, participated in the peace negotiations, and so did, from the other side, Dalēlakha and Hagana Allikhk. To ratify the treaty Jayasimha came to the bank of the Rājasamudra lake, followed by his retinue and 7,000 strong cavalry and 10,000 stroug infantry. The retinue included the Chöhän Jhala Chandrasēna, Räval Sabalasimha of the Paramära family, Mahārāva Vairisäla, the Räthör Thakkuras, and also the warriors of the Chandavata, Saktāvata and Rāṇāvata clans.
The prominent of the opposite party were Emperor Aurangajêba's son, Suratrāna Ajama, his faithful general Dalalakh, Hasana Allikhã, and also Räthöda Ramasimha of Ratlam and Häda Kisörasimha,' the ruler of Gauda. Jayasimha flanked by his priest Garibadāsa and the chief minister Bhikhü of the Vaiya caste and followed by the aforementioned Thakkuras, advanced and saw the Suratrana Ajama. The latter showed great respect to the former. Then there was exchange of gifts that comprised 11 elephants and 40 horses from the side of the Rāņā and 1 elephant, 28 horses and three pieces of gold embroidered cloth from the side of Ajama.
Afterwards, Dalēlakhã introduced to Ajama some of the outstanding warriors of the Råņa's side, namely Jhälä Chandrasēna, Rāva Sabalasimha, Rävata Ratnasi, and so forth.
Thus the treaty was concluded."
Rājasimha died suddenly after a meal in the village of Odi in the Kumbhalgadh District, according to some, of poisoning.
* Ojha, op. cit., p. 89-92.
* Actually not the emperor of Delhi but prince Azam Khan with whose foroes Dilabar was attached. See Ojba, op. cit., pp. 892, n. 5.
Ibid., pp. 892-93. . The reference to Akbar here is wrong. It should be Azam. SyXmasimba, who was the first to propose to Jayasimha peace with the Mughals offering his services as the mediator was employed in the Mughal army under Dilerkhan. Sarkar identifies him with Shyam Singh of Bikaner (op. cit., Vol. III, p. 370), but according to the Rajaprasasti, he was the son of Garibadäsa, second son of Mahārāṇā Karnasihba. Ojha, op. cit., p. 896, n. 1.
• This meeting of the Räni and the Mughal prince Azam took place, aecording to Sarkar (op. cit., p. 370), on the 14th June ; but Ojha gives the date as 24th Juno (op. cit., p. 897).
* Häda Kisörasitha was the 5th son of Rāņā Madhavasitha of Kotah. See Ojba, op. cit., p. 897, n. 2.
See also Ojha, op. cit., p. 897 and 1. 3. • For the terms of this treaty see, Barkar, op. cit., p. 370.
