1919.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 77 
and so on.! Now, it is a very significant fact that the 
successors of Jodhd, from Nibd who was appointed heir- 
apparent during his father’s life-time, to Satala who supplan- 
ted Jogo, and finally to Sijé who supplanted Viké, were all 
sons of one mother, the Hadi Jasama De. Evidently, and the 
Chronicles seem to confirm it, Jasama De was the favourite 
tani of Jodhd® and the influence exerted by her during her 
husband’s life-time was in no way diminished after her hus- 
band’s death. That she was an energetic woman and took 
an active part in political events, may be gathered from 
the Bikaner Chronicles’ account of how she went to negotiate 
with Viko under the walls of Jodhpur, when he was besieging 
this city. Those were the times when female intrigues and 
succession, and that even the nobles could be influenced by. the 
es 
a 
sons by different mothers : Virama De, and Gago. Virama De 
was elder to Gago, but after Sijo’s demise (Samvat 1572 5), 
the nobles excluded him from the gaddi because they disliked 
s mother, and elected Gago, whose mother happened to be 
agreeable to them 
1 The other ranis beet the Hulani Jamuna De, mother of J ogo and 
Bhara Mala; the Bhatiyani Para, mother of Karama Si, Kipo, Cada 
Rava, Jasavanta, Rai_ Pala, oo Vana Vira; and the Vagheli Vina De, 
mother of Savata er ca Siva Raja. 
2 baigliade a aratqet ) (C. 52, p. 27a). In an adespotic kavitta 
in honour of rava a Jodhé contained in MS. 8 (D.C., ii, i), = 205a, Jodhd 
is given the oritnae of WMPHTe Aa, “ husband of Jasama De.” This 
ee be taken to indicate a privileged apes of 7% war dig in 
mparison with pt co-wives, but on the next of t e MS. 
ee 2066—207a) we find a gita by Baratha Cohatha, alos i tian of 
rava Jodhso, where Jodhoé is called ‘husband of Noranga 
De,’ the last-mentioned name being that of the Sékhali rani, mother of 
Born 
entally, it may ree surprise that Jasama De did not immo- 
ras hetselt on the pyre of raéva Jodhdé. But in the Chronicles pao 
here is no ph he of any rani of Jodho having becom 
sath a 
4 Cie. also bis Boss gaierotee: by some of the Jodhpur aera that 
it was Jasama ho persuaded Naro to — cate in favour of Sij 
5 cree 5, C68, p. igh C. 52, p 
6 C. 52, p. 36a- b; C. 39, p- 200. Sintlar instances o f infringement of 
the rule of primogeniture are by no means uncommon in the an 
