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DOHAD INSCRIPTION OF KING JAYASIMHA DEVA.
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the lion does the elephant." 26.-"Either | obligation to Dr. Bübler for his valuable suggeshe or the Lord of Vaidehi bound the Lord of tions and assistance, and also to R. S. Ochbavthe Sindhus or rivers, or the lord of râm Madhâ vrâm, late Mamlatdar of Dohad. Sindhu-desa, with a coumtless host of Haris? In Goga Náráyana, Goga appears to be a name (i. e. cavalry,) casting down many bhúbhrits,' or of some one of the ancestors of the Mantri, the kings." 27.-"Not relenting in his mind in founder of the temple; as Goga is a name very the matter of the hostile king's rise_he like common with the Rajputs of the times, such the sage Agastya instantaneously dried up or as that of the Goga who with his forty-seven sons destroyed Arņo Raja." 28.-" This was fell fighting bravely in defending the passage the only difference between him and Vishņu. of the Satlej against Mahmud's invasion, a The daughter of Arnorâja-(the ocean)- short notice and a representation of whose Lakshmi was taken to wife by Vishņa, and statue we have in Tod's Rajasthana, vol. I, p. 720. Arnorâja the king gave her in marriage to And giving names to gods or temples of gods him." 29.-" Seeing the decapitated heads newly instituted by the founder from his own of enemies lying at his feet the lord of name or from that of his ancestor is a practice Sakambhari (Sambhar) too, out of fear, not uncommon in this country. bowed down his head to him." 30.-"He beat down in battle the Paramâ ras, another
NOTE ON THE DOHAD INSCRIPTION. Mara, A para mara, as he was, the betrothed
BY DR. G. BÜHLER, C.I.E. of tho regal fortune of the ruler of Mala v 4." Mr. Dhruva has rendered an important 31.-"He threw the Lord of Dhar å into a service to those interested in the history of wooden cage like a royal parrot, and at Gujarat by the pnblication of the Dohad inthe same time he made the royal swan of his
scription given above. The inscription not fame enter the cage of the universe-all the only reveals the ancient name of the western directions." 32.—"He took but a single frontier town of the Panch Mahals, but Dhår â, the city of Naravarman-but he throws some light on the connexion of the gave thousands of dhárús (streams) of tears by it Chaulu kya rulers with the whole Zilla. to his wives."
We learn that in the twelfth century, just as We thus see how closely the two accounts now Godhra (Godrahaka) was the chief of the acts of Jayasinha deva agree with town of the district and the seat of a Mahathat of the contemporaneous inscription and the
mandalesvara, a great feudatory or baron, poem of a century later or more.
under whom Thakors, like Råna SankaraSo this Inscription notes that in Sam. 1202 siha of û bhlod, held smaller districts. (A. D. 1146) “king Jayasinha deva was We, farther, hear that the Cbaulukya lord alive." The date of the death of the same king paramount appointed a Senápati or military according to the Rása Máld is Sam. 1199, while commander to the district, including in that Tod mentions Sid Rae as ruling over cbarge the town of Dadhi padra (DehGujarat from Samvat 1150 to 1201. In the vad-Dohad). This fact indicates that the Kumarapala Inscription that Tod quotes in an Malåmandalesvara of Godhrâ was not left alappendix the year is read as Sam. 1207, while together free, and that, very probably, Thanas, it is mentioned in the work itself as bearing held by Chaalukya soldiers, existed all date Sam. 1206.
through the district. The object of this arSo far as the present inscription goes, we may rangement is not doubtful, if it is borne in mind safely hold that King Jayasinha dê va was that one of the great routes from Gujarat the ruler of Gujarat and other countries in Sam. into Målvâ passes through the Panch 1202 or A. D. 1145-6.
Mahals, that Dohad lies just on the frontier I have only to add here the expression of my of Malva, and that the relations between Málva
6 4. e. the ocean in the case of Rama. 14. e. monkeys forming the army of R&ma. . i. e. mountains in the case of Rama. . Cf. verse 2 of our inscription.
10 In the rise of the mountain Vindhya, that had made obeisance to the age and was told by the latter to remain
go till he returned, bereft as Vindya was of his Pakshas or
Lord of the waters in the case of Agastya, a king of that name in that of Jayasinha.
13 Vide Annals of Rajasthan, vol. I, p. 98, note. 13 Ibid. pp. 266 and 808.
