2?2 Major Ton, on an Inscription at Madhucarghar. 



Having thus, for some time, been made a public spectacle, his sorrows 

 were ended by being nailed on a cross. 



Such is the reported end of Munja. 



In the Cu7ndra-Pdla-Charitra (of which I have made a similar use, as of 

 the Bhoja-Charitra'), a work of some interest, written in the twelfth 

 century, by Sailig S6ri A'charya, on the dynasties of Pattan Nehrwala, 

 I found an incident related, which is desemng of notice in the paucity of 

 historical facts and dates. It is there related, that Durlabha of Pattan, 

 who had resigned his tiirone to his son Bhima, visited Munja, in his way 

 to Gaya, to perform pilgrimage. 



Now this was precisely twelve years after the conquest of Guzzerat, by 

 MAHMtJD of Gliizni, and the dethronement of its prince, Chaond SolanM. 

 That event occurred in Samvat IOG7, or A.D. 101 1 ; to this add the year of 

 Durlabha's abdication; 1011 + 12=1023, A.D. or Samvat IO79. 



We shall see presently how this evidence is borne out by the inscriptions ; 

 though I have others of the S6lanki race, to have corrected these annals, if 

 requisite. 



Another synchronism is established by the same authority. The cele- 

 brated SiDDHA Raya Java Sinha of Pattan conquered the Prdmdra 

 territories, took the capital, and their prince Nara-varma prisoner. This 

 is the Nara-varma of our inscriptions, the son of Udayaditya, and grand- 

 son of Bhoja. Jaya Sinha, one of the most celebrated and powerful princes 

 since the time of Vicramaditya, ruled from Samvat 1150, to Samvat 

 1201. Our inscription recording the grant is by the son of Naka-varma 

 dated 1191.* 



Jag-deo (YAJNYADfevA) Prdmdro remained twelve years in the service of 

 SiDDHA Raya. His name is proverbial throughout 7?(//e5^7/«'« for fidelity and 

 honour ; and his offering of his own head at the shrine of the Indian Pro- 

 serpine or Calligenia, is well known to every Rdjaput. 



I shall now place in one point of view, the three inscriptions and their 

 corroborations, from the SdlanU history. I could easily add further 

 proof, if it were requisite. But I shall reserve inscriptions of other 

 dynasties, the Chdhamdna, Grahilole, and Yadu-Bhatti, for a future 



* The grant bears date of Samvat 1200, confirming a prior grant in 1191 — H.T.C. 



