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Mêdapata, the modern Mewad. It is dated, in figures only, in the year 1342 (A.D. 1285), on the first day of the light half of the month Mârgasirsha. And it records the putting in repair, by the order of the prince, of a matha or monastery on Mount Arbuda, or Abû; the establishment, in connection with the monastery, of a residence for four pious men, for the support of whom provision was made by the prince (verse 53); and the erection of a golden flagstaff in honour of Achalêsvara, (Siva) 'the Lord of the Mountain' (verse 54).
The main value of the inscription lies in its furnishing the following list of the Guhila princes (verses 5 and 6) of Mewad :
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
1. Bappa, or Bappaka, the founder of the family, is said to have had royalty conferred on him by the sage Hârîta, practising penance at the town Nagahrada' (verses 7-11).
2. Guhila (v. 12).
3. Bhoja (v. 13).
4.
Bila (v. 14).
5. Kalabhoja (v. 15).
6. Bhartribhata (v. 16).
7. Simha (v. 17).
8. Mahayika' (v. 18).
9. Shummâna(v.19), or Shommâna*(v.37)
10. Allata (v. 20).
11.
Naravahana (v. 21).
12. Saktikumara (v. 22). 13. Suchivarman (v. 23). 14. Naravarman (v. 24). Kirtivarman (v. 25).
15.
16.
Vairata (v. 26).
17. Vairisimha (v. 27).
18. Vijayasimha (verses 28 and 29).
19. Arisimha (verses 30 and 31).
20.
21.
Choda (v. 32).
Vikramasimha (v. 33).
22. Kshêmasimha (verses 34 and 35).
23. Samantasimha (v. 36).
24. Kumarasimha (v. 37). 25. Mathanasimha (verses 38 and 39). 26 Padmasimha (verses 40 and 41). 27. Jaitrasimha (verses 42 and 43). 23. Tejaḥsimha (verses 44 and 45). 29. Samarasimha (verses 46-48). In the case of ten of these princes (2, 3, 5,
Nagda, still a place of religious resort, about ten miles north of Oodipur'; Tod, loc. cit. Vol. I. p. 222. 3 See my note 71 on the translation, below. Usually called Khuman or Khomân,
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8, 10, 13, 20, 21, 23, and 29) it is distinctly intimated in the inscription, that they were the sons of their respective predecessors.
Assuming that the allusion in verse 15, to the wars of 5, Kalabhoja, with the rulers of Choda and Karnata is put in merely for the sake of poetical ornament, nothing of historical importance is mentioned of any of the above princes excepting 24, Kumarasimha, 27, Jaitrasimha, and 29, Samarasimha. From verse 37, it appears that Kumarasimha reconquered the land of his predecessors, which had got into the possession of some enemy. Of Jaitrasimha it is stated, that he eradicated Nadula, defeated a Turushka army, and had engaged in battle with the Sindhuka (?)-army" (verses 42 and 43). And of Samarasimha we learn that he lifted the deeply sunk Gurjara-land high out of the Turushka-sea' (v. 46), in other words, that he defeated the Muhammadans.
As regards Kumarasimha, I would merely draw attention to the fact that according to verse 38 of the inscription A, appended to Mr. Kathavate's edition of the Kirtikaumudi, a prince, Samantasimha, who probably was our No. 23, the predecessor of Kumarasimha, was defeated by Prahladana, lord of Åbû. Nadula I take to be the place Nadûl or Nadôl mentioned by Muhammadan writers, a ruler of which (Nadula-náyaka), according to the Kirtikaumudi II. 69, was defeated by Lavanaprasada, chief of Dhôlka. The allusion to a Sindhuka (?) army appears to point to the repulse, by Jaitrasimha, of some invasion from Sindh.
From the Chêdi inscription of [Chêdi]Samvat 907, referred to at the beginning of this paper, we learn that the wife of the Chedi prince Gayakarna, Alhanadevi, whose benefactions are recorded in that inscription, was the daughter of Vijayasimha, born to him by his wife Syamaladevi,
the beauteous daughter of Udayaditya, supreme ruler of the realm of Malava.' The same inscription records that Vijayasimha was the son of Vairisimha, who again is stated to have been the son of Hamsapala, of
The original publication of the text has Samdhaka, translated by of the Sindhis.'
See Sir H. M. Elliot, History of India, Vol. II. e.g. p. 229; Elphinstone's History of India, ed. Cowell, p. 365; Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I. p. 240.
