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168 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1909. 
The generic name of the tribe to which the ed peed belongs 
is Guhilot or Gehlot. It is a corruption of the skrit word 
Guhila-putra, which is met with in inscriptions. "To cite an 
instance, an inscription dated Samvat 1335 and _ originally 
found at feces but now lying at the Victoria Hall, Udaipur, 
has the following :—S7i-Ekalimga-Har-dra idhana-Pésupat-dcharya- 
Haritarasi - keshatriy ya - Guhilaputra -[Simha] - labdha - mahodayd.' 
Here Simha, one of the early kings of the Mewar dynasty, is 
called Guhilaputra, i.e., Guhilot. The Bhera-Ghat inscription 
KLE. i 
of Alhanadevi dated 907, however, gives the variant Go- 
bhila-putra in the verse asti prasiddham-iha Gobhilaputra-gotran- 
tatr-ajanishta nripatth kila Hamsapdlah.” ere Hamsapala, 
one of the names occurring in the dynastic list of Mewar, is spoken 
of as belonging to the family of Gobhilaputra, i.e., Guhilot. A 
Hansi inscription dated V.E. 1224 has the Prakrit form Guhi- 
lota instead of the Sanskrit expression Guhilaputra or Gobhila- 
putra. Thus Kilhana, the maternal uncle of the Chahamana 
ee who had been appointed keeper of Asikadurga, 
, the Hansi fort, is therein represented to have pertained to 
the Giihilot-dnvaya,§ i.e., the Guhilot family. Whether we take 
Thus the dynasty is called not only Guhilaputra (Guhila-son) 
but also Gauhilya (of, 7.e., Sprung from, Guhila), from which - 
another tribal name, viz. Géil or Goyal, is derived. The name 
Gauhilya occurs, e.g., in a Chitorgadh inadtiption of V.E. 1331 
in the line Yasmdd-dadhau Guhila-varnanayd prasiddhim Gauhi- 
lya- a-vamé‘a-bhava-raja-gano-tra jatim.’ This whole verse is quoted 
also in the pragasti of _ oe of Mamadeva at rer 8 . 
1 Above vol lv, pt. i 0 ies 
- Ep. nd, vol. ii, pp. 11-12, 
3 The origin stone is it present lying in the Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh. I quoted the above ss a nice owas of ie the hii to me. 
am -» VOL. .KVs . 443 — 6, and Veaasdenane Roy 
Soe. vol. i, gi 
’s The "Ehdiinpe or, septs of all the well-known Rajpat fam lies are so 
formed cite a instance:, of the Rathods s 1 a t- 
malot, Bharmal alot, and so forth; of the Ranavats (Sisodiyas), 
are Bhicharots, exigesh eS so on; ohans 
ae © ending of of all the.e names is the c-rruption of the 
putra, 
5 Bhavnagar Pr. and Sk. Inscrs., p. 75. 
6 This . if a: a deseri, ti of bie PUeoL. St mJ ily 2 and was caused 
