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APPENDIX] RAJAPRASASTI INSCRIPTION OF UDAIPUR
117 Wrested the kingdom of the Māri chief Manu (Mānabhanga), became its ruler and took the title of Rävala for his family.
The Rāja prasasti then follows with the names of 26 Rävals of whom the last was Karnasihha. Though many of these names are found in the Atpur inscription of V.S. 1034, which for the first time gives a number of names of the Guhila chiefs, and a few other earlier records known so far," their chronology, relationship and the order of succession ae given in the Rājaprašasti are not at all accurate. It, however, gives the succession of the rulers from Arisimha, father of Hammira, onwards correctly. This would indicate that its author had a knowledge of the genealogy of the later rulers perhaps from some of the late records, though it is clear that he was not acquainted with the early records of the dynasty and drew his material entirely from the bardic chronicles.
The prasasti contains very little information about the Rävals and whatever little is given is found to be incorrect. Karnasimha's father Samarasimha is stated here to have married Pritha. of a sister the Chauhần king Prithviraja and died in the battlefield fighting for his brother-in-law against Shahabuddin Ghūri. The same story is repeated by Col. Tod in his Annals on the anthority of the chronicles. But this is impossible from the chronological point of view. Prithvirija died in 1192 A.D. and Samarasimha was still alive in 1302 A.D., i.e., more than one hundred years later. They could, therefore, have never been contemporaries. The Guhila contemporary of Prithviraja was Samantasimha and not Samarasimha and, if there is any truth in the matrimonial connection between these two families, the reference must be to Sämantasimha. But so far no inscription has been found to support this conjecture. Moreover, we know that Ratnasimha and not Karnasimha was the son of Samarasimha. Karnasimha, according to the Rānpur and Kumbhalgadh inscriptions (where he is called Ranasimha), was the son of Vikramasimha and flourished long before the time of Samarasimha. The Ekalinga-māhātmya calls him Karnasimha and says that from him sprang the two branches-those of Rāņā and Rával. Again, according to the Rāja prasasti, of the two sons of Karna, Māhapa who was the elder, became the ruler of Dungarpur and Rāhapa the younger son, after he had defeated Mökalasimha of Mändor, was given the title of Rānā, and made the ruler of Chitor by his father Karnasimha. But we have ample evidence to show that neither of the statements is correct. Both Māhapa and Rahapa belonged to the Rana branch of Sisõdā, while Karnasimha's eldest son, Rāval Khēmasimha, succeeded to the rule of Mewar. His next seven successors were Kumārasimha, Mathanasimha, Padmasimha, Jaitrasimha. Tējasimha. Samarasimha and Ratnasimha.. Actually, Khēmasimha's eldest son Samantasimha succeeded his father ; but afterwards he lost his kingdom of Mewar to an enemy and had to remain etatisfied with the remaining part of his kingdom including Vägada (present Dungarpur and Bängwārā). Ojha names this usurper as the Chāhamāna Kirtipāla (Kitu) who was finally ousted by Samantasimha's younger brother Kumārasimha who took upon himself the rule of Mewar.' According to the Sadadi inscription of V.8. 1496 of the time of Rānā Kumbhakarna,' however, the credit of defeating Kitu goes to Bhuvanasimha of the Sisodā branch who is also credited with the victory over Alăuddin (Khalji). But neither statement can be correct as the date of Bhuvana
1 See also above, pp. 3 and 6. Bhandarkar identifies Bappa with Simha of the Atpur insoription and Ojha with Kalabhöja. Seo Bhandarkar's List, p. 388, n. 8; Ojha, History of Rajputana (in Hindi), pp. 404 ff.
* For a list of these kings, see above, p. 4.
. These are the Samoli inscription of Silāditya, V.S. 703, the Nägda inscription of Aparajita, V.8.718, Partāb. garh and Ahad inscriptions of Bhartripatta, V.. 999 and 1000, Ahad inscription of Allata, V.S. 1008 and 1010 and Eklinga inscription of Naravshana, V.8. 1028.
. For these rulers, see Ojha, op. cit., pp. 458 ff.
Ojha, op. cit., pp. 463 ff. • See Mount Abu inscription of Samarasitha, V. 1342; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVI, pp. 847 ff.
Bhandarkar, 4.8.1. An. Rep., 1907-08, PP. 214 ff.
