1920. ] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 265 
this author a Jain, muni Jayata, the pupil of va(caka) Ksama- 
ratna of the Brhadgaccha.' This is probably the same man 
who composed or shaped together the praésastz-inscription, and 
in this respect it is significant that though his name has been 
omitted in this inscription, the Jain symbol |}&}} at the 
beginning has not been discarded. 
The paper record to which I have alluded above, is an old 
gutiké preserved in the Darbar Library in the Fort of Bikaner, 
and described in my Descriptive Catalogue of Bardic and Histori- 
cal Manuscripts, sect. ii, pt. i, pp. 70-3. It is a contemporary 
record, for it was written from Samvat 1640 to Samvat 1656, 
and almost entirely by Vidavata Savala Dasa Sagavata, one 
of the nobles in the service of raja Raya Singha. Pages 226*- 
232° of this gutikd give the full text of the Rayasimhapirva 
FOU OCU FO TOUCHE 
inscription also as a work by itself and with different readings, 
umber of 
on some manuscript copy which has remained unknown to us. 
Reverting now to the examination of the contents of 
the prasasti-inscription, not many words need _ be wasted on 
the contents of the first sixty lines. The mangalacarana which, 
‘is preceded by a salutation, to Krsna, the istadeva of the R 
the Rathoras explicitly, but implies them in the epithet “ Kings 
born in the race of the Sun.” Ofno greater value, on th 
whole, is the genealogical composition in Slokas w ich follows, 
and which ultimately is but a long list of bare names put 
in doggerel verses and worded in a very low and monotonous 
| ewRplaar’ Paarcafe (sic) WE STI fewA . The same phrase 
with the variant : oFawra afasnaar GM, is found at the end of the in- 
scription mentioned in the preceding note. 
