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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
Apart from the above, enormous additional expenditure was incurred voluntarily by various
feudatory chiefs and freeholders especially in the digging work.
According to another reckoning, the total expenditure by the king represents a larger figure
of 1,05,07,608 rupees.
On the day of his birth-day anniversary in the year 1734, Rājasiṁha performed two great
gifts, Kalpadruma and Hiraṇyāśva,[1] comprising two hundred tolas and eighty tolas of gold respectively.
In the month of Śrāvaṇa in that year, Rājasiṁha went up to Jīlavāḍa, rescued Vairisāla,
the Rāva of Sirōhī, who was harrassed by enemies, and reinstated him as the ruler of Sirōhī. From
him Rājasiṁha accepted one lakh of rupees and five villages, Kōraṭā and others. Besides, a gold
pitcher belonging to the Rāṇā (Rājasiṁha) had been stolen and found its way to Vairisāla’s land,
and as compensation for that Rajasiṁha took from him (Vairisāla) a sum of fifty thousand rupees.2
Verses 33-41 contain a panegyric of Rājasiṁha, verse 42 his lineage from Udayasiṁha down to
Rājasiṁha’s son Jayasiṁha, as in some other cantos, and likewise the last two verses the genealogy
of the poet.
Slab XXIII ; Canto XXII
On the 11th day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra in the year 1735, Prince Jayasiṁha, at the
instance of his father, Rājasiṁha, started on tour. First he came to Ajamēru (Ajmer). Then
he went to Dillī to see Aurangzed, the lord of Dillī. He met him two krōśas this side of Dillī in a
camp. The Emperor welcomed him and presented him with a pearl necklace, brocade, an elephant
and horses. The Emperor also gave similar gifts to the prominent men who accompanied
Jayasiṁha, namely the Jhālā Chandrasēna, the priest Garībadāsa and several Ṭhakkuras.
From there Jayasiṁha went to the Ganges where he took bath, worshipped Śiva Gaṇayuktēśvara[3]
and performed a silver tulā, and made gifts of an elephant and a horse.
In the month of Jyēshṭha, Jayasiṁha performed pilgrimage of Vṛindāvana and Mathurā.[4]
On the 11th day of the dark fortnight of Pausha in the year 1736, the Emperor of Dillī came to
Mēvāḍa. First, his son Akbar and Tahabara Khāna (Tahawar Khān) came with their armies to
Rājanagara where their men committed atrocities. There Śakta of the Śaktāvata clan, son
of the Pūrāvat Sabalasiṁha and brother of Muhakamasiṁha, gave a terrific battle.[5] A certain
Chōṁḍāvara warrior and twenty soldiers gave their lives in this clash. Thereupon the Rāṇā
ordered the Kshatriya warriors of the great Dahavārī ghaṭṭa (Dēbārī pass) and other ghaṭṭas to
join the struggle. They came with fire-arms. On the other side the Emperor of Dillī also came
to the Dahavārī ghaṭṭa breaking open its portals, was there for twenty-one days and then secretly
reached Udayapura.
Afterwards Akbar also came to Udayapura. Tahabara Khāna followed him while his
work was done by his followers. Akbar saw there the god Ēkaliṅga. When he was near Ambērī
and Chīrava ghaṭṭas,[6] Jhālā Pratāpa of Karkēṭapura (Karget) seized two elephants from the
Emperor’s army and presented them to the Rāṇā.
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[1] For these two mahādānas, see Hēmādri, op. cit., Dānakhaṇḍa, pp. 245, 277.
[2] See Ojha, op. cit., p. 855.
[3] The reference is obviously to the Śiva at Gaḍhmuktēsvar on the Ganges about 45 miles from Delhi in the
Meerut District.
[4] See Ojha, op. cit., p. 856. It may be interesting to note that on the southern side of Gōvindajī’s temple at
Bṛindāvan there is a pillared Chhatri ‘of very handsome and harmonious design’ erected on the 5th day of the dark
half of Kārttika, V.S. 1693 (1636 A.D., i.e., 40 years later than the temple itself), in the reign of Shāhjahān by Rāṇī
Rambhāvatī, widow of Rājā Bhīmasiṁha, second son of Rāṇā Amarasiṁha of Udaipur and uncle of Rājasiṁha.
[5] Ojha, (op. cit., p. 876) gives the credit to Muhakamasiṁha.
[6] The villages of Amberī and Chirwā.
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