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cal importance, they were neither copied nor taken into consi- 
deration. All the other inscriptions found, with a very few 
exceptions, are Rajput. 
he n information which these Rajput inscriptions 
supply in connection with the history and pre-history of Bikaner, 
is interesting. The Mohila inscriptions mentioned above, es- 
tablish beyond doubt the fact that the Mohilas’ settlement 
in the tract afterwards known as Mohilavati. was already 
accomplished in the beginning of the Samvat-century 1200, 
and seem to indicate that in those early days their principal 
seat was not Chapara, but Caralu, a place eleven miles away 
_ from the former. Devalis discovered at Caralii supply us with 
at least four new names of the Mohila chiefs, to wit: Visnu 
Datta > Devasara(?)>An illegible name> Ahara> Ambaraka, 
and at least three dates, to wit: Samvat 1200, being the year 
of the death of Devasara ; Samvat 1234, being apparently the 
year of the death of Devasara’s son whose name I have been 
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death of both Ahara and Ambaraka, who, as the inscription 
tells, were both killed “in the battle of Nagapura (Nagora).” 
Now Ahara is one of the names in Mihandta Néna Si’s pedigree 
of the Mohila ranas, and Ahara’s great grandfather Visnu 
Datta is possibly one and the same person with the Hara Datta 
or Hari Datta mentioned by Néna Si. That Néna Si does not 
mention Devasara, but gives two other names (Véra Si, Vala- 
hara) in his stead, need cause no difficulty, because the inaccu- 
racy of Néna Si’s pedigree of the Mohila ranas has already 
been established by the devalis found at Chapara. The oldest 
Mohila record, dated Samvat 118.., was found at Sarangasara, 
four miles westwards of Carali, and is inthe form of an epitaph, 
— almost entirely illegible, engraved on a govar- 
na. 
Inscriptions throwing additional light on the history of 
the Sakhalas of Jagali, were discovered at Anakhisara (21 miles 
E.S.E. of Jagali), and at Vasi-Varasiighasara (9 miles N. of 
Jagala). In the former place four devalis were found all dated 
Anakha Siha and his two wives, Rohini and Pim§, and the re- 
maining one referring to a Rana Mala, probably a relative of 
Asala who must have died, or rather have been killed, on the 
same occasion as the latter. Though the inscriptions do not 
spe the tribe to which Asala and his father Anakha, Si(ha) 
on S 
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more interesting. It is not an epitaph, but a kirtistambha- 
inscription of some length (35 lines), composed for the largest 
part in Sanskrit verses, and recording that Dilaha Devi, 
