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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA that Samarasiṁha was followed by his soldiers numbering twelve thousand, captured the Gōrī king, but was unfortunately killed in the battle. Reference is made to a Bhāshā work, called here Rāsā (perhaps the same as Pṛithvīrāja-rāsō), in which, it is stated, the details of this battle are given. Samarasiṁha’s son was Rāvala Karṇa. With him ends the list of the twentysix Rāvalas.[1] Rāvala Karṇa had two sons : Rāvala Māhapa and Rāhapa. The first is said to have ruled as a king at Ḍūṅgarapura (Dūngarpur in Rājputānā). The second, it is narrated, went to Maṁḍavara (Mandor in Jodhpur State and ancient capital of Mārwār) by order of his father and the prediction of a soothsayer. There he vanquished Mōkalasiṁha, and brought him as a captive to his father Karṇa. The latter deprived Mōkalasiṁha of his title of Rāṇā which he bestowed on his son Rāhapa who was later on better known as Rāṇā or Rānā (sic) ) only.[2] This Rāhapa, being blessed by Śaraśalya, a learned Brāhmaṇa of the Pallivāla (Pālivāl Brahmans of Rājputānā) family,[3] ruled at Chitrakūṭa. He also came to be known as Sīsōdiyā from the fact that he had formerly dwelt for some time at Sīsōdanagara. Rānā Rāhapa’s descendants bore the same viruda of Rānā. The last two verses (35 and 36) give the genealogy of the poet, which is the same as found in the end of the slab II above. The record closes with the date of the consecration of the Rāja-samudra, namely Saṁ 1732, Māghī 15 (i.e., Māgha paurṇimā).
Slab V ; Canto IV The fourth canto opens with an invocation of the tamāla tree on the bank of the river Yamunā and then the genealogy is continued. His (Rāhapa’s) son was Rānā Narapati ;[4] then came from father to son, Jasa (Yaśaḥ) karṇa, Nāgapāla, Puṇyapāla,[5] Pṛithvīmalla, Bhuvanasiṁha, Bhīmasiṁha, Jayasiṁha and Lakshmāsiṁha who bore the title of Gaḍhamaṇḍalika apparently because he was the conqueror of the fort of Maṇḍalgaḍh, and whose younger brother was Ratnasī, the husband of Padminī, for whose sake Allāvadīna (Alā-ud-dīn Khaljī) besieged Chitrakūṭa, Lakshmasiṁha with his twelve brother and seven sons fought and died in this battle ; only one of his sons namely Ajēsī survived, who succeeded him to the throne. Lakshmasiṁha’s eldest son was Arasī[6] who died with his father and whose son Hamīra held the reins of the kingdom (after Ajēsī). Hamīra was well known for his liberality and as one who showed the holy river Ganges on his forehead. It was again he who built the black (stone) image of Ēkaliṅga (Śiva) with four faces,[7] accompanied by Śyāmā (Pārvatī), after the crystal figure of Śrī (Lakshmī) deposited in the lake of Indrasaras had been ascertained to be lost. Hamīra’s son was Kshētrasiṁha, his son Lākhā (Lakshmaṇasiṁha) and his son Mōkala.[8] This last named had a brother called Rāvata Bāgha who had no children. Mōkala got a tank, named Bāghēlā after his brother, constructed at Nāgahrada (with the wish that his brother Bāgha be blessed with a child). Mōkala also built a marble enclosure to the temple _____________________________________________________________ [1] This list closely follows the Khyāts with the exception of Puñjarāja whose name is omitted in the latter
and Ratnasiṁha (I) who comes between Samarasiṁha and Karṇa. See Ojha, ibid., Vol. I, p. 92, n. 1.
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