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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
along with a sum of Rs. 20,000 as well as a cow-elephant. Phatēchanda being filled with pity levied
a light tribute. He brought Pratāpasiṁha with him and produced him before Rājasiṁha. In this
way Phathēchanda became a favourite of Rājasiṁha.[1]
Akhērāja, the Rāva of Sirōhī, was already loyal to Rājasiṁha. Thus Rājasiṁha kept him in
subjection through affection only.
In the year 1716, in the month of Phālguna, the king got a gate with heavily nailed doors
constructed at the great ghāṭ of Daṁhabārī (Dēbārī) adjoining the hill.
In the year 1717, the king Rājasiṁha, accompanied by a huge army, went to Kṛishṇagaḍha
(former Kishangarh State) and married Rāṭhōḍa Rūpasiṁha’s daughter who was intended to
be married to the lord of Dillī.[2]
In the year 1719, the king subjugated the country of Mēvala[3] after destroying the Mīnā forces.
The whole of Mēvala he gave to his subordinated chiefs.
In the year 1720, Raṇavata Rāmasiṁha, by the order of Rājasiṁha, went to Sirōhī with an
army and there released Rāva Akhērāja, who was placed in captivity by the latter’s son Udayabhāna
and restored his territory to him.[4]
In the year 1721, on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Mārgaśīrsha, king Rājasiṁha gave away his daughter Ajavakūṁvarī in marriage to Bhāvasiṁha, son of the Bāghēḷā chief
Anūpasiṁha, the lord of Bāndhava[5] (Bandhogarh in the former Rewa State), marrying at the
same time ninety-eight girls of his relatives to various high chiefs. On that occasion king
Rājasiṁha dined together with the Kshatriyas of a lower rank, namely his son-in-law Bhāvasiṁha
and his relatives who then proclaimed : “ We have been purified by eating Rājasiṁhā’s food
which is as holy as that received from the deity Jagannātharāya ”.[6] The king then gave gifts
of horses, elephants and ornaments to the bridegrooms.
In the year 1721, in the month of Māgha, on the occasion of a solar eclipse (Friday, 6th January,
1665 A.D.), the king performed gifts of Hiraṇyakāmadhēnu, costing Ra. 2,000, and silver tulā
and made a gift of an elephant called Gajamauktika.
In the year 1725, on the 10th day of the bright half of the month of Māgha, on the consecration
of a tank at the village of Baḍī,[7] the king performed a silver tulā gift, naming the tank as Janasāgara.
On that occasion he gave to the priest Garībadāsa two villages, Guṇahaṁdā and Dēvapura. The
digging of the tank cost 680,000 rupees. This charitable deed he performed in honour of his late
mother Janādē[8] (lit. he assigned the merit to his mother). Also, on that very day, at Udayapura,
at the instance of the Rāṇā (Rājasiṁha), (his son) the young price Jayasiṁha, performed the consecration ceremony of another tank, called Raṁgasaras, giving great gifts.
V. 53 gives the genealogy (Udayasiṁha, Pratāpa, Amarsiṁha, Karṇasiṁha, Jagatsiṁha,
Rājasiṁha and Jayasiṁha) and states that the last mentioned caused the present praśasti to be
engraved on stone.
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[1] See Ojha, ibid., Vol. II, pp. 540-41.
[2] Her name was Chārumatī. This marriage of Rājasiṁha enraged Aurangzeb who is alleged to have separated
the parganas of Gayaspur and Basāvar from Udaipur State and given them to Harisiṁha, the Rāval of Devañyā
See ibid., pp. 541-42.
[3] Southern portion of Mewar. Ojha, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 543.
[4] See ibid., p. 543.
[5] It may be pointed out that Bāndhavēśa is one of the epithets of the rulers of the Rewā house even at
present.
[6] The temple of this deity is at Udaipur.
[7] To the west of Udaipur.
[8] Daughter of Rāṭhor Rājasiṁha of Meḍtā.
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