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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
the pass).[1] Thereupon Jayasiṁha sent his brother Bhīmasiṁha and Bīkā Sōlaṁkī to stop Tahabara
Khāna. They both destroyed many enemies and surrounded Tahabara who after eight days got
away. Jayasiṁha had by this time come in the neighbourhood of Ghanōrā.[2] Hearing that from
the other side Dalēlakhā (Dilābar Khān) had reached the hills of Chhappanna, Jayasiṁha sent
Rāvat Ratnasī (Chūḍāvat) to protect the Gōgūṁḍā ghaṭṭa. Then the Rāṇā’s man surrounded the
ghaṭṭa with the result that Dalēlakha could not escape.
Jayasiṁha sent Jhālā Varasā (Varasiṁha) to make peace with Dalēlakha whom he said : “You
are respected by the Emperor of Dillī and you have got 15,00 strong cavalry with you and you
have been stopped here by one man (viz., Ratnasī), so you can easily get away.” Dalēlakhāna tried
all the three passes and found them all strongly guarded. The Nawāb Dalēlakha, however, bribed
a Brāhmaṇa by giving him 1,000 rupees and with his help escaped through another way under cover
of night ; but there, too, Rāvata Rātnasī blocked his way. Anyhow he managed to escape from
there, and came to the Emperor of Dillī.[3] There asked by the latter as to why he returned
without chasing the Rāṇā, he said that through want of foodstuff daily four hundred of his men
were dying and he was thus compelled to return.[4]
Then Akbar came to make peace.[5] Śyāmasiṁha, son of Garībadāsa, the second son of Rāṇā Karṇasiṁha, participated in the peace negotiations, and so did, from the other side, Dalēlakha
and Hasana Allīkha. To ratify the treaty Jayasiṁha came to the bank of the Rājasamudra
lake, followed by his retinue and 7,000 strong cavalry and 10,000 strong infantry. The retinue
included the Chōhān Jhālā Chandrasēna, Rāval Sabalasiṁha of the Paramāra family, Mahārāva
Vairīsāla, the Rāṭhōr Ṭhakkuras, and also the warriors of the Chaṇdāvata, Śaktāvata and
Rāṇāvata clans.
The prominent of the opposite party were Emperor Auraṅgajēba’s son, Suratrāṇa Ajama,[6]
his faithful general Dalēlakha, Hasana Allīkha, and also Rāthōḍa Rāmasiṁha of Ratlam
and Hāḍā Kiśōrasiṁha,[7] the ruler of Gauḍa. Jayasiṁha flanked by his priest Garībadāsa and
the chief minister Bhīkhū of the Vaiśya caste and followed by the aforementioned Ṭhakkuras,
advanced and saw the Suratrāṇa Ajama. The latter showed great respect to the former. Then
there was exchange of gifts that comprised 11 elephants and 40 horses from the side of the Rāṇā
and 1 elephant, 28 horses and three pieces of gold embroidered cloth from the side of Ajama,[8]
Afterwards, Dalēlakha introduced to Ajamam some of the outstanding warriors of the Rāṇā’s
side, namely Jhālā Chandrasēna, Rāva Sabalasiṁha, Rāvata Ratnasī, and so forth.
Thus the treaty was concluded.[9]
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[1] Rājasimha died suddenly after a meal in the village of Ōḍā in the Kumbhalgadh District, according to some,
of poisoning.
[2] Ojha, op. cit., p. 89-92.
[3] Actually not the emperor of Delhi but prince Azam Khān with whose forces Dilabar was attached. See
Ojha, op. cit., pp. 892, n. 5.
[4] Ibid., pp. 892-93.
[5] The reference to Akbar here is wrong. It should be Azam. Śyāmasiṁha, who was the first to propose to
Jayasiṁha peace with the Mughals offering his services as the mediator was employed in the Mughal army under
Dilerkhan. Sarkar identifies him with Shyām Singh of Bikaner (op. cit., Vol. III, p. 370), but according to the
Rājapraśasti, he was the son of Garībadāsa, second son of Mahārāṇā Karṇasiṁha, Ojha, op. cit., p. 896,
n. 1.
[6] This meeting of the Rāṇā and the Mughal prince Azam took place, according to Sarkar (op cit., p. 370), on the
14th June ; but Ojha gives the date as 24th June (op. cit., p. 897).
[7] Hāḍā Kiśōrasiṁha was the 5th son of Rāṇā Mādhavasiṁha of Kotah. See Ojha, op. cit., p. 897, n. 2.
[8] See also Ojha, op. cit., p. 897 and n. 3.
[9] For the terms of this treaty see, Sarkar, op. cit., p. 370.
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