72 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
ever that was, certain it is that Viko went to Jagali as a friend 
of Napo and had the latter’s support in all the conquests which 
he subsequently made in the country to the north and east.! 
Jagalii was bordering with the Bhatis of Paigala to the north 
and west, with the Jatas to the north, and with the Mohilas to 
the east. Vik6o established himself at Kodamadesara, a village 
on the oe border of Pigala, founded by rava Jodho during 
his exile.” a few years, the Jatas were ‘completely beach 
ted and all ps country to the very borders of Hisara 
Depalapura fell into the hands of Viko. The Mohilas, aro 
apparently had alreadv been defeated by rava Jodho 
years before, were definitely crushed and their territory, bacon 
as Mohilavati, became the possession of Vidd, a uterine brother 
of Viké. The Bhatis of Paigala, who at first had watched with 
apprehension the conquests of their eg heting neighbour, be- 
came more friendly when they saw that 6 had no aggressive 
intentions in respect to them, and Sekho, "this rava of Pugala, 
married to Viko his daughter. Meanwhile, about the year 
Samvat 1542,3 Viké had begun to build a new fort a dozen 
miles to the east of Kodamadesara. This was the origin of the 
city of Rikaner, and it was completed and populated in the 
vear Samvat 1545.+ 
n the same year Samvat 1545. rava Jodho died in Jodh- 
pur. Satala was appointed to succeed him. But from a par- 
ticular preserved in the Chronicles. it appears that the legitimate 
successor of Jodho after the death of Nibo. was not Satala but 
Jogo. “ After the demise of rava Jodho, writes the chronicler, 
[the nobles} were going to place the t2kd on the forehead of Jogo, 
but the latter, who had just made his ablutions, said: Wait 
till my hair is ‘dry. Whereupon all said : We will not ware the 
tiké to him, and went and consecrated Satala instead.” The 
probably nothing but his own invention. (See P. W. Powlett’s Bikaner 
Casateee. po 1, 
1 iat See by Col. Tod that Viko fell with his band upon the 
Sakhalas of Jagalii and ‘‘ massacred ” them, is not only untrue, but also 
unjustiGable in at no Chronicle contains anything approaching such a 
zee ment, on the contrary all represent Napo as a friend and auxiliary 
rava Viko. 
2 See 4 Prog ss Report, etc.” for 1916, pp. 217-2 
3 Jéta Si rd F Onaniia by Vit = Sajo, 49. Some orcas give the 
date Samvat Taal.) Ofte D, 0.23, 1, 18; p. 
ike Jodhpur, Bikane fake derives its name from its founder : 
fey aba is but the vernacular form of Vikramanagara, meaning ‘‘ the city 
of ‘ama, or Viko. 
Sura ster aia Stat stat Zar Bar vet sisfeyt wg ae g 
FSS GIT Bat sag Ft agi wt Sat a AH az (Fat) sree 
siparsa a@ feat (D.C., i, i, 18, p. 4440); aT Ts ate Hat sitar a 
2a or yet ee are wo aifet et g wat @ aan dat cae 7 
ret feat (From a MS. from Phalodhi dating from the end of the Samvat 
