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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
Similarly for Rāvala Amarasiṁha Bhāṭī, he sent to Jēsalamēru the following presents with
Devānanda Jōshi : one elephant, Pratāpaśṛiṅgāra, costing 11,500 rupees, two horses, Hayamukuṭa
and Ratimūrtti, costing 1,500 and 750 rupees respectively, and costly clothes.
Again, to Rāvala Jasavaṁtasiṁha of Ḍuṁgarapura, he sent the following presents with Dvivedī
Harijī : one elephant, Sāradhāra, costing 6,500 rupees, and costly clothes. At the time of the
consecration of Rājasamudra (where he was present) Rājasiṁha had also given him two horses,
one called Jasaturaga, costing 1,000 and 500 rupees respectively, and many costly clothes.
To his Chief Minister, Dōsī Bhīkhū, he gave one elephant, Pratāpaśṛiṅgara, costing 11,000
rupees, and clothes.
To Rāṇāvata Rāmasiṁha, who was the chief of those entrusted with the supervision of the
construction work of the Rājasamudra, he gave an elephant, Siranāga, costing 7,000 rupees, and
clothes, while to the other Ṭhākuras and Kshatriyas he gave altogether sixty-one horses, costing
25,551 rupees.
On this occasion, the bards and minstrels also received from the king a generous gift of two
hundred and six horses, costing all told 27,571 rupees.
The last two verses contain the genealogy of the poet Raṇachhōḍa as in some other cantos.
Further, to Bāṁdhavēśa (Bāghelā ruler of Bandhōgaḍh, i.e., Rewā) Bhāvasiṁha he sent, through
Lādhu Masānī as lādhūka (?) for the purpose of pilgrimage, an elephant, Anūparūpa, costing 7,000
rupees, two horses, Vinayasundara and Dilasāra, costing 950 and 400 rupees respectively, and costly
clothes.
To some chiefs, who had come there on invitation, he gave eighteen horses, costing 4,300 rupees.
To the mother of Rāyasiṁha, the ruler of Tōḍā, and his sons, he gave a female elephant, Sahēlī,
costing 3,000 rupees.
To some other chiefs, who had come there on invitation, he gave thirteen horses, costing 3,450
rupees, to still some others, seven horses, costing 561 rupees (each).
To those of the bards and minstrels who were ināmdārs or freeholders of his own and of his
ancestors, he gave two hundred horses, costing 13,136 rupees. The details thereof are as follows :
23 horses to his own free-holders, 23 to those of Rāṇā Jagatsiṁha, 4 to those of Karṇasiṁha, 7 to
those of Amarasiṁha, 18 to those of Pratāpasiṁha, 38 to those of Udayasiṁha, 1 to that of Vikramārka 1 to that of Ratanasī, 27 to those of Saṁgramasiṁha, 21 to those of Rāyamalla, 1 to that
of Kuṁbhā, 19 to those of Mōkala, 5 to those of Hammīra, 7 to those of Lākhā, 1 to that of Khētā,
1 to that of Ajēsī, 1 to that of Rāvala Śālivāhana, 1 to that of Samarasī, and 1 to that of Rāvata
Vaghā, brother of Mōkala.
In all 552 horses were bought at the cost of 1,22,268 rupees and 13 elephants, including a cow-elephant, at the cost of 1,02,800 rupees, that were given away as gifts by Rājasiṁha.
Slab XXII ; Canto XXI
In the beginning of this canto are given the details of the expenditure on the lake itself. The
construction started on Wednesday, the 7th day of the dark half of Māgha in the year
1718 (Wednesday, 4th January, 1662 A. D.) and was completed in the month of Āshāḍha in
the year 1735. The money spent during this period on various works in connection with the lake
amounted to 46,64,625¼ rupees. Further details of this gross total are mentioned in the text
and are noted in footnote 2 on p. 81. The total includes the sum of 7,00,001 rupees spent in
connection with the inauguration ceremony. Of the remaining sum of 39,64,624½, 32,02,880¼
were given in cash as wages, and 7,61,744 were adjusted against the revenue due from the Ṭhakkuras who had been appointed to the supervision of the construction work.
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