Indian Antiquary Vol 59

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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August, 1930]
CHITOR AND ITS SIEGES
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According to the Chach-nama, 31 an attack on Mahrat, Raņå of Chitor, seems to have been made by Chacha very shortly before his accession to the throne of Sindh in 631 A.D.33 Rana Mahrat of Chitor appears to be the Maurya king, MAheśvara of Chitor, who was one of the predecessors of Mana.
An attack on the Mauryas of Chitor is also mentioned in the Bombay Gazetteer 38 as having been made by Junaid, the Governor of Sind, sometime during the reign of Khalifa Hasbim (72443 A.D.). This is unlikely; for Chitor was then in all probability under the Guhila ruler Bapa. It is, however, possible that the attack referred tu was not on the Mauryas of Chitor, but on those of Khandesh, which was nearer to Sind than Chitor.
As has already been noticed, Chitor was taken 34 from the Mori king Måna by Bapa sometime after 8. 770 (713 A.D.). Before taking Chitor, he is said to have ruled at Nagda, the old oapital of Mewar. He ruled at Chitor till . 810 (753 A.D.), in which year he is said to have abdicated 16 in favour of his son Khumman I. It is somewhat difficult to identify BApA and assign a place to him in the genealogy of the Mewar prinoes. The name B&på does not appear to be a personal name, but & title. According to the Rajaprasastimahakdoya, 16 Muhnot Nainsi's Khydta 37 and other authorities, Khumman was the son of Bap&; while, according to the Atapur 18 inscription, Khumman was the son of Kalabhoja. From these it appears that BAPA and Kalabhoja were identical. Thus Bå på may have been another name of Kalabhoja and the eighth 39 ruler from Guhadatta (Guhila, Guhaditya, Grahaditya, etc.), the founder of the Guhila dynasty of Mewar. In the inscription 80 dated Samvat 1028 (971 A.D.), of the time of the king Naraváhana of Mewar, Bappaka (BApA) is said to be the moon among the kings of the Guhila family and a jewel of the surface of this earth. It Was this B&på through whose bravery, according to Col. Tod,81 the first attack on Chitor, then under the Mori prince Mana, by Yazid or Muhammad bin Qasim, was defeated.
The next irruption of the Muslim invaders against Chitor took place during the reign of Khumman II, and was made by the Khalifa Al-Maman of Baghdad. Col. Tod gives an exaggerated socount 8s of the invasion and mentions the names of many towns and kingdoms which had not been founded by then. For instance, the principal towns of Ajmer, Jaisalmer, Sirohi, eto, mentioned by Tod, were not founded earlier than the twelfth century A.D.
The next assault on Chitor was made by the Chauhana ruler Kirtipala of JAlor during the reign of Rawal Samantasimha of Mew&f, as stated above. The result was that Samantasimha had to abandon Chitor and go to Vagada (the territory now occupied by the present Banswara and Dungarpur States), where he established an independent kingdom for himself, and thereby became the founder of the present ruling family of the Dungarpur State. 38
91 Elliot, History of India, vol. I, pp. 428-27. 13 Duff's Chronology, p. 60. Also Elliot, History of India, vol. I, pp. 406—7. 20 Bombay Gazetteer, vol. I, pt. I, p. 109. 24 Rajpuudnd Mweum Report, 1917-18, p. 3. 36 Ind. Ant., vol. 39, p. 190. 30 at tramet T ATTT: U trou ll ......... TTT 11 S TEHT...........
Canto III. 37 Muhpot Nainsi's Khydta, sheet 2, p. l. 38 Ind. Ant., vol. 39, p. 191. 30 Ibid., p. 188. ३० आस्मत्रभूहिल [गो]बनरेन्द्रचंड श्रीवष्पकः क्षितिपतिः क्षितिपीठरत्नम् ।
Ante, vol. 39, p. 189. 31 Tod's Rajasthan, vol. I, pp. 287-90. 33 Ibid., p. 291. 38 Ind. Ant., vol. 53, p. 101. Before this an attack on Ahada by king Manjaraja has already
been referred to