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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
GUHILAS OF MEWAR:
Founder of the Dynasty: As regards the genealogy of this branch we get some information from a Jain epigraph known as Rainpur Jain temple inscription of Kumbha bearing the date V.E. 1496 (1439 A.D.). It mentions Śrī Bappa as first member of the dynasty followed by Guhila. This, however, seems to be erroneous, for, the earlier records of the family ascribe Guhila as the founder of this dynasty. Our two Jain inscriptions support this view. The Cirwa stone inscription of V.E. 1330 mentions Padmasimha, one of the members of this branch to have been born many years after Bappa of the Guhilāngaja vamśa.The Citor stone inscription of V.E. 1335 states that Mahārājakula Samarasimha was the ornament of the Guhila family. Thus they established the fact that Guhila, not Bappa, was the original member. Moreover, the Atpur epigraph of Saktikumāra (V.E. 1034), the earliest record of this branch, supplies a regular genealogy of the family and traces the pedigree from Guhadatta."
Besides this the list of those members who preceded Allața is not recorded correctly by the Rainpur Jain inscription. We know from other sources that 16 members preceded Allaţa, while this inscription mentions only 8 members before him without giving their correct succession which is rightly known from earlier inscriptions.
Bhartı patta: We, however, have no information about 16 predecessors of Allața from the Jain sources except that about Bhartặpațţa II, who founded the city of Bhartspura identical with the modern village of Bhatevar, which has given the name Bhartępuriya to a Jain Gaccha."
Allața: Bhartspațţa II is said to have been succeeded by his son Allaţa, according to the Āhar Saranesvara temple inscription of Allata dated V.E. 1008 (951 A.D.). The late G. H, Ojha refers to a damaged and fragmentary undated Jain inscription discovered in a small Jain temple at Āhar connected with Allața.? It states that Allața killed in fight his powerful enemy Devapāla and also speaks of one Akşapatalika Mayūra whose name
1 P. C. Nahar, Jain Lekha-sangraha, Pt. I, p. 165, No. 700. 2 WZKM., XXI, pp. 142-62. 3 JASB., Pt. I, pp. 18 and 48. 4 IA., XXXIX, pp. 186-91. 5 Vijayadharmasűri, Prācina Lekha-sangraha, p. 12, No. 39. 6 BI., pp. 67-69; I A., LVIII. p. 162. 7 HR., II, p. 428.
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