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temple of Vişņu at the village Cirwā, situated at a distance of 10 miles from Udaipur to the north of it. It traces the genealogy of Samarasimha from Padmasisha who is said there to have been born many years after Bappa of the Guhilāngaja vaṁsa. It also gives the genealogy and history of the Talāra Yogaraja of Tantarāda family, whose ancestors were serving the Guhilas from the time of Mathanasimha in various capacities. The purpose of description is to record the erection of a temple of Siva by Yogarāja in the village of Cirakūpa near Nāgadraha (mod. Nāgdā) and certain grants made by his grandson Madana and his mother Hirū.
The second inscription of V.E. 1335 has been discovered incised on a lintel of a Jain temple in the fort of Citor. The purpose of the inscription is to record the erection of a temple of Syāma-Pārsvanātha by Jayatalladevī, the queen of Tejasimha and the mother of Samarasimha and a grant of land made by Samarasimha to construct a monastery for Pradyumnasūri. Samarasimha is mentioned there as Mahārājakula and the ornament of the Guhila family.
From these inscription we get two dates of his reign, viz., V.E. 1330 and 1335. But the other published inscriptions of his period dated V.E. 1334, 1356 and 1358 show that he, like his grandfather, enjoyed a long reign of more than 28 years from V.E. 1330 to 1358 (1273-1301 A.D.). Though we have no information regarding his political achievements from these inscriptions, a contemporary Jain writer Jinaprabhasūri, the author of Vividha-tirtha-kalpa, informs us that when Ulugh Khān the younger brother of Ala-ud-dīn proceeded on his expedition against Gujarāta in V.E. 1356 (c. 1299 A.D.) 3 Samarasimha, the king of Citrakūta, saved his country from devastation by paying homage to him. This fact is not stated by the Muslim historians, but it is reliable since it comes from a contemporary authority.
The Rainpur Jain inscription of V.E. 1496 mentions Bhuvanasimha who was conqueror of the Cāhamāna Kīțuka and the Suratrāņa Alā-ud-din. But from the other sources it appears that Ratnasimha, the son of Samarasimha, was the successor of his father. His inscription dated V.E. 1359 (1302 A.D.)
1 WZKM., XXI, p. 142 ff. 2 IA., XXII, pp. 80-81 ; see also HR., II, p. 479. 3 DHNI., II, p. 1195. 4 SJGM., X, P. 30: fpecieaf FACITEIT TOE TE RE
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