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ON THE YAJVAPALAS OR JAJAPELLAS OF NARWAR
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and crafts and such other subjects as are classed under várttà in two Lists, the first of which contains the names of manuscripts, and the second names of printed works. So far I have not come across any work entitled Värtta-Sastra dealing with the entire subject in a general way. The absence of such a book in the Lists cannot be a bar to the recognition of the other works mentioned therein as appertaining to vartta in view of what we find in regard to the three other divisions of learning Anvikshiki, Trayi and Dandaniti; for I do not think there are any works entitled Anvikshika or Trays though there are admittedly hundreds of works on philosophy and theology. Similarly in framing the list of more than 150 works on Dandaniti or its sub-topics, which I have collected and published elsewhere, I have not come across any book with the title Dandaniti. It is not essential that books must always be named after the divisions of learning to which they belong, and it is not a fact that books named otherwise cannot appertain to those divisions of learning. Most of the works named in the lists are on one or other of the sub-topics of varttâ or on a group thereof, treating of architecture, sculpture, painting, examination of precious stones, agriculture, nourishment of plants, treatment and cultivation of trees, laying out of gardens, cow-keeping, handicrafts, construction of carriages and ships, &c. We do not expect to find in these works an attempt to elicit economic laws by an inductive and deductive study of man and his diverse activities in relation to the utilisation of nature. The analogy of the handVing of polity in the available treatises on the subject points also to the same inference. We find in them details as to the duties of various government-servants from the Viceroys to the lowest menial, how the State-departments should be administered, how war is to be waged and inter-statal relations maintained, and so forth, and not any abstract discussions of the origin and development of State, nature and seat of sovereignty and such-like.
(To be continued.) A NOTE ON THE YAJVAPALAS OR JAJA PELLAS OF NARWAR.
BY M. B. GARDE, B.A.; GWALIOR. In his Coins of Mediceval India (p. 90) Sir A. Cunningham gives the following genealogical table of a family of kings whom he calls 'Rajputs of Narwar'.
Accession.
Dates from inscriptions and cnins.
SAMVAT.
1347
Malaya Varmma Deva
S. 1280, 1282, 1283, 1290. 1294 1237 Chahada Deva
. . S. 129, 1303, 1305, 1306, 1311. 1312 1255 Nộivarmma 1312 1255 Asalla Deva .. ..
S. 1327, 1330. 1335 1278 Gopala ..
S. 1337. Ganapati ..
$. 1348, 1355. This list 1 was compiled from inscriptions and from the dates furnished by the coins and other sources' known to Cunningham. Four inscriptions relating to these kings are mentioned by him, namely
No. 1. At Rai, dated S. 1327 = A.D. 1270, in the time of Asalla Deva. No. 2. At Dahi, dated 1337 = A. D. 1280, mentioning Gopala Raja. No. 3. At Surwaya, dated 1348 = A.D. 1291, in the time of Ganapati Râja.
No. 4. At Narwar, dated S. 1355 = A.D. 1298, in the time of Gagapati. 1 Cunningham gives another defective list of these kings in his A. S. Reporte, Vol. II, p 216. • Coins of Medieval India, p. 90.
