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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
Table II
Succession of the rulers of Mewar from Hammira to Jayasirhha
1. Mahārāņā Hammīra, s. of Arasi (Arisimha) of Sisōda who was the eldest son of Lakshmasimha.1 2. Mahārānā Kshetrasimha, s. of 1. V.S. 1423.
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3. Lakshya or Lakshasimha, s. of 2. V.S. 1462, 1468, 1475.
4. Mokala (Mahārājādhirāja Mahārāja Mrigänka), s. of 3. m. Saubhagyadevi (mother of Kumbhā) and Gōrämbika of the Baghela family. Had seven sons. V.S. 1478, 1485-86. The Rajaprasasti mentions Bagha as one of his brothers.
5. Kumbhakarna (Mahārājädhiraja Rayaraya Räne-rāya Mahārāṇā). Had also the birudas Todaramalla, Abhinava-Bharatacharya and Hindusuratrāņa among others. Eldest s. of 4. m. Kumbhalladevi and Apūrvadevi. Built the fort of Kumbhalgarh and other monuments and forts. V.S. 1488, 1491, 1494-97, 1499, 1505, 1507, 1509-10, 1515-18.
6. Udayasimha (Uda). s. of 5. Became ruler after murdering his father in V.S. 1525. As a patricide his name is omitted in all the inscriptions of the dynasty.
7. Rajamalla (Raymal). s. of 5. Became ruler in V.8. 1530 after ousting his brother Uda. m. Sringaradevi, d. of Yodha, prince of Marusthali: (Marwär). V.S. 1537, 1543, 1545, 1556-57,
1561.
8. Samgrāmasimha (Sanga), s. of 7. V.8. 1574, 1584.
9. Ratnasimha II, died childless.
10. Vikramaditya, b. of 9. V.S. 1589. He was murdered in V.S. 1596 by Vanavira, a natural son of Prithviraja, son of Mahārāņā Raymal, who for a time usurped the throne of Chitor.
11. Udayasimha II, s. of 10.10 Built Udaipur and commenced the excavation of Udayasagara in
V.S. 1616 which was completed in V.S. 1621; d. V.S. 1628.
12. Pratapasimha, s. of 11.11 V.S. 1630, 1634, 1639. d. V.S. 1653.
13. Amarasimha, s. of 12. Born V.S. 1616, Chaitra
di 7 (16th March 1559 A.D.). Coronation V.S. 1653, Magha sudi 11 (19th January, 1597 A.D.), died V.S. 1678, Magha sudi 2, Wednesday (26th January, 1620 A.D.).1
1 According to Nainsi, he had three other sons, Lana w hose descendants were known as Lunavat Sisodă, Khangar and Vairasala.
He had six other sons. See Ojha, Hist. of Rajputana, 1. 570.
For the names of his six other sons, see Ojha, op. cit., p. 582.
Ojha, op. cit., p. 590.
According to the Kumbhalgarh inscription, he had 11 sons and many wives of whom only two names are known, one from the Chitor Kirtistambha inser. and the other from his commentary on the Gitagovinda, Rasikapriya (Ojha, op. cit., p. 664). His d. Ramabai was married to Yadava. Mandalika of Surat (Junagarh) who later became a Muslim and his wife returned to Mewår.
This is the reading of Bhandarkar. See his List, No. 769.
*According to bardic chronicles he had 11 wives, 13 sons and two daughters (Ojha, op. cit., p. 658).
According to the chronicles he had 28 wives, 7 sons (4 of whom died during his life time) and 4 daughters (Ojha, op. cit., pp. 686-87).
No inscription of this ruler has come to light yet. But there is an undated stone inscription of his minister Karmasimha at Satruñjaya (near Pälitänä in Käthiäwär) (Ojt ia, op. cit., p. 703).
10 The story has it that Vanavira wanted to kill the boy prince also. But his foster mother Pännä placed her own son on the bed of the prince who was killed by the usurper. Pännä then rescued the boy prince who ultimately with the help of the Sardars recovered for himself his ancestral kingdom in about V.S. 1597. According to the chronicles, he had 20 wives and 25 sons (Ojha, op. cit., pp. 733-34).
11 He had 11 wives and 17 sons. Ojha, op. cit., p. 781.
11 See Ojha, op. cit., p. 820.
