XXxiv . Annual Report. [February, 1913. 
At Ujjain the Bhats sometimes come. But Bardic works: 
are not much encouraged. There are, however, Jagais who keep 
the genealogies of all the inhabitants; and these genealogies are 
very ancient and they are taken as evidence in the Civil Courts 
in the Native States. Ujjain is a very ancient city and its. 
exploration by competent scholars is ikely to lead to important 
results. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Sipra. 
The ancient town was to the north of the modern city. The 
site of the ancient city is now a heap of ruins, rising from 10 
to 30 feet above the level of the surrounding country. The site 
of the modern city was anciently occupied by the temple of 
Mahakala, the palace of the king, his offices, and the gardens 
belonging tothe temple and the palace. Kalidasa speaks of the 
royal gardens being on the Sipra and the temple gardens on the 
Gandhavati ; the latter was a considerable stream in the poet’s 
time and fashionable women delighted to bathe in it. But the 
stream does not exist at the present moment and it was only 
after a good deal of search and investigation that its course has: 
een found out, Itis no longer a stream now but a narrow 
drainage channel called the Gandhanala, which, rising at the 
Gomukhatekri just behind the Ujjain College, passes first 
through the Ksirasagara, then through the most populous part 
of the city, and falls into the Sipra at the northernmost point of 
what is regarded as the most sacred Ksettra on the Sipra. 
Samvat 1547. The first inscription records the conquest of 
Malwa by Maharajadhiraja Paramesvara Jaya Singha Deva. 
But the most important inscription lately discovered in the 
country of Malwa is at Mandasore. It is dated in the Malava 
Samvat 464. that is, A.D. 407. It speaks of the reigning 
prince as Naravarma, the son of Siddhavarma and the grandson 
of Jaya Varma. Read with other inscriptions, found at Manda- 
sore and published in the third volume of I nscriptum Indicarum, 
it gives the history of Western Mal 
before and after ibs c rh Malwa for about 150 years, both 
Society of Bengal. 
(1) Ajita-Carita in verse (contains a hi araj 
ee = istory of Maharaja 
vas are Preegictinr I and Ajit Singha. po Seca ; 
ata or history i hi 1 araj 
Wea Singh 0 story in prose, from Pufij to Maharaja 
3 ata or history j + ae 
YaSovanta Singha is ne oe wee OR panes y ene 
