70 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
supremacy of the Rava.' ‘This supposition is confirmed by the 
fact that some of the sons of Jodhé went to establish them- 
selves in places which at the time were either waste or un- 
important, founding new cities or rebuilding old ones. Thus 
atala, one of the eldest sons of Jodhd who afterwards suc- 
. ceeded to the gaddi of Jodhpur, sae to ee nomen in the 
desert near Pohakarana and Pha i, and fou the new 
city of Satalamera. It is obvious that Jodho veda have never 
assigned to one of his eldest sons a fief of that kind, consisting 
Pohakarana and thus found a large state. The Rathoras of 
those days were not lacking spirit of enterprise, and on the 
other hand the exuberant growth of the race made it impera- 
tive for them to conquer new land and provide free scope for 
their ambitions and ample means of subsistence for themselves 
and their descendants. This remark will help to understand 
the conditions under which Vik6 left the court of his father 
and went to carve for himself a rew state in the Jangala 
country. 
Though some Chronicles give a smaller number, probably 
through omission of some of the less important names, there 
can be no doubt that rava Jodho had at least seventeen sons, 
whereof the names are faithfully recorded in the most accurate 
Chronicles. These names are, in alphabetical order, the follow- 
ing: Karama Si, Kapo Clida Rava, Jasavanta, Jogo, Dido, 
Nibo, Bhara. Mala, Rai Pala, Vanavira, Vara Singha, Viko, 
Jidd, Satala, Savata Si, Siva Raja, and Sai? The eldest of 
all was Nibo, and nS eg to all the Chronicles, who speak of 
him as kavara Nibo, he was the ttkayata or heir- “apparent of 
Jodho, but he died foo his father, without issue. Nibo had 
been residing for some years at Sojhata, an important strong- 
hold, which had also been the residence of Ri ina Mala and later 
of Jodho himself, before the latter founded Jodhpur.’ By the 
time when Jodhé died in Samvat 1545, the most enterprising 
Also it is not unlikely that some of the brothers of J Tee who had 
ee given fiefs under Rina Mala, retained these under the domination of 
Citora, and had them lige oa re ecognized by Jodho, when the latter re- 
established - Se deny over Marw 
2p). , 18, pp. 40a-b; C. 2, p. 26b; C. 68, pp. 6b-7a. (In the 
above, the foitials D.C. stand for Descriptive Catalogue of a and His- 
torical Manuscripts, and the Jobo C stands for Manus opied, 
whereof lists are given in the Progress Reports of mig Sur 
® Gadana Pasaita in his Jolene, a poem on the ex exploits of rava 
Jodhso, makes the following explicit allusion to this prince’s stay at Soj- 
ata: 
afteat sity sata a8 
afestaie oS 4 1G! (D.C.,i, i, 19, p. 1022.) 
