74 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV. 
he owed at least the submission of a respectful son if not that 
of a vassal, had refused to recognize the supremacy of the 
Rava of Marwar, that Rava his brother, and Satala undertook 
the above-mentioned expedition in order to subjugate him. If 
this was Satala’s object, he failed in it, and the Rava of Bika- 
supremacy of Marwar. Satala had a very short rule, for in 
the year Samvat 1548 a Muhammadan army from Ajmer in- 
at Kusané lost his life in the field. He died without issue. 
n as the news of the death of Satala reached Bika- 
ner, Viko assembled a force and hastened to Jodhpur. Why ? 
tions, th onicles remove it by explicitly stating that 
he went to Jodhpur with the hope to succeed to the gaddi 
of Marwar. Now mere fact that Viko went to Jodhpur 
against her, could have never dreamt of going there and 
finding the people so well disposed towards him to consent to 
set aside-the legitimate heir and elect him in his place. On 
the contrary, in spite of his right to’succeed, he well knew 
that most of the people would be hostile to him, and therefore 
brought a force to back his claims. That he had at least one 
partisan in Jodhpur, the commander of the fort,! a very high 
official in those times, is admitted by the Chronicles, all of 
which agree in stating that it was the commander of the fort 
who sent word to Viké to come quickly that he might be 
invested with the i##ké of Marwar. Naturally, the account of 
the Chronicles of Bikaner differs to some extent from the account 
given by the Chronicles of Jodhpur. According to the former, 
Viko delayed on his way to Jodhpur* and thus gave time to 
the Hadi Jasama De, the mother of Sajo, to persuade the 
commander of the fort to give the wkd to her son. Viko 
' The Bikaner Chronicles give his name as VéraSala Bhivota, where~ 
as the Jodhpur Chronicles give his name as Varajaga Bhivota. The 
latter, who was a brother of the former, had commanded the Marwar 
forces at the battle of Kusano. 
g AvcA =~ 
7 2 ary Mat aeatec Sm efea gos are ea was ac az 
= 2 
wat Fas O arat (D.C., i, ii, 2, p. 175); HaHteMN war 4 fem fe 
aA 2 
SAS BC GA Cel FF Are MAT (D.C., i, ii, 30, p. 1514). 
_ 3 Evidently, Viké discouraged by the fait accompli of the election of 
Sajo and by the lack of support on the part of the Jodhpur Chiefs, 
