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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA he performed the great gifts and ruled peacefully. To his guru Lakshīnātha, Amarasiṁha gave away a village named Hōlī.[1] After Amarasiṁha, his son Karṇasiṁha became king ; when he was a boy, he had performed a silver tulā charity on the banks of the Ganges and had given a village in charity to the Brāhmaṇas of Śūkara-kshētra.[2] He also destroyed, as said before, Dhaṁdhērā, the country of Mālavā and the city of Sirōṁja. He made Akhērāja, the lord of Sirōhī, defeat his enemies.[3] His feet bore the auspicious signs of lotus, and he was equal to Karṇa in liberality as well as in valour. And when Kurraṁa, son of Jahāṁgīra, the lord of Dillī turned against his father, Karṇasiṁha gave him shelter in his own country and, when Jahāṁgīra died, sent his (Karṇa’s) brother Arjuna with him (Khurrama) and made him (Khurrama) the lord of Dillī.[4] He (Khurrama) then came to be known as Sāhijahām (Shāhjahān). In the year 1664, on the 2nd day of the bright half of the month of Bhādra, Jagatsiṁha was born to Karṇasiṁha, from the latter’s wife Jāmbuvatī, a daughter of the Rāṭhōḍa chief called Jasavaṁta, alias Mahēchā(?). Jagatsiṁha was crowned king on the 3rd day of the bright fortnight of the month of Vaiśākha in the (Chaitrādi) Vikrama year 1685.[5] By his order, his minister Akhērāja attacked Dūṁgarapura whose chief Rāvala Puṁja took to flight while the city of Ḍūṁgarapura was sacked.[6] Again, ordered by Jagatsiṁha, Rāṭhōḍa Rāmasiṁha raided the city of Dēvaliyā (Deolia, 5 miles from Partābgarh in the former Partābgarh State), plundered it and killed its chief Rāvata Jasavaṁta along with the latter’s son Mānasiṁha (Mahāsiṁha according to other sources). Jagatsiṁha had two sons, Rājasiṁha and Arasī, the former of whom was born on the 2nd day of the dark half of the month of Kārttika in the year 1686, and the latter a year later from his wife Janādē, daughter of Rāṭhōḍa Rājasiṁha, chief of Mēḍatā (Mēḍtā) ; he had also a natural son Mōhanadāsa. Jagatsiṁha afterwards subjugated Akhērāja, the chef of Sirōhī and seized the territory from Tōga-Bālīsā, whom Akhērāja had vanquished. He then had a palace, called Mērumandira, constructed within the premises of his residence, and another, called Mōhanamandira,[7] on the banks of the lake called Pīchhōlā.
At the command of Jagatsiṁha, his Pradhāna (Chief Minister) Bhāgachaṁda[8] invaded Bāṁsavālā (Bānswārā) whose chief Rāvala Samarasī along with the ladies fled to the hills, but afterwards owned Jagatsiṁha’s overlordship and paid him a tribute of two lacs of rupees. The king Jaghatsiṁha gave his daughter in marriage to Bhāvasiṁha, son of Śatruśalya (Śatruśal Hāḍā), the ruler of Būṁḍī and at the same time gave twentyseven other girls in marriage to different princes. On that occasion he also decorated the temple of Ēkaliṅga with flags and a gold cupola. In the year 1698 on the occasion of the Dīpāvalī festival the Queen Mother Jāmbuvatī went on pilgrimage to Dvārakā where she worshipped the god Raṇachhōḍa and performed charities including a silver tulā gift. She also gave two halas of land at the city of Āhaḍa (Āhār, outside the _______________________________________________________________ [1] This village is in the Girvā District. Cf. the Jagannātharāya praśasti, verse 114, above Vol. XXIV, pp.
64 and 77.
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