178 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [J une) 1909. 
What is worthy of note here is that Bhartribhatta, a Guhilot, 
is compared to Parasurama, and is spoken of as possessed of 
priestly (brahma) ge martial (kshatra) energy. Now, as Parasu- 
rama was a Brahmana by caste but did the duties of a Kshatriya, 
what the verse Felchiwite is that Bhartribhatta was a Brahmana 
by extraction but did regal duties. I have said above that this 
inscription like that of Saktikumara pertains to the second half 
of the 10th century A.D. These are the earliest records that 
refer to the Brahmana origin of the Guhilot dynasty, and it is 
indeed wonderful that this origin was not forgotten by the 
people even to a very late period. Thus Mata Neasi,! whose 
khydt or chronicle is known all over Rajputandé and 
who flourished in the reign of Jaswantsingh of Jodhpur (A.D. 
1634—1681) quotes the following chhappaya regarding the 
origin of Rana’s family :— 
aif qa saute aq vo at aia | 
simeqe fawme zat Bele aeiai., 
zea age 4 via fat ASMA AETHG | 
fat aa quat ne aPata ATE | 
Uae Fe Us aT AS cry TT faraT | 
vafdanza al coat sae FOYT feat He” 
1 Mata noon was by caste an Osval be ihe Y speeches khadmp. His 
father’s name w ayamalla, tee 8 slides and 
Sauhagade. Byron the first he i ene sons. ; vee 4 whe om tr was the 
—— Jayamalla was a Divan @ f Mah haraj Gajsingh of Jodhpur, who, 
ance with the orders of the Moghul emperor Jehangir, wrested 
ae fort of — from the Bihari Pathans of Palanpur. After the cap- 
ture of the rt, Jayamalla installed new images in the Jaina temples 
on it. His con Maté Nensi was a Diwan of Jaswantsingh I, son of 
Gajsimha. It in gone his tenure of office that he wrote 4 history, in 
Arwari prose, of Ma and at tribes, w as 
-Nensi-ri_ khy is looked upon as of the highest authority 
—~ out the whole of that country e chronicle is ided into 
two an account of the Rathods and of the villages 
and aa war held by okie: gh. ‘The second part d 
Sonigra, aces; and so forth. After sais the post of the Diwan for 
some a was put into prison by Jaswantsingh, and one lac of rupees 
was f him as his ransom. Bu ata Nensi refused to pay 
it, and committed suicide. The Maharaja thereupon dis the 
Munoyats from : of whom, therefore, |} odhpur, went 
to Nagaur, and sought refuge with the Rathod Rao Raysingh, who 
was no doubt a nephew of Jaswantsingh, but had obtained the 
province of Nagaur from the Moghul oe appt lia and was thus Beds 
of bere cr ae? son Karamsi became his Diw 
This ehhappaya was copied from Pandit. Gaurishankar’s med 
Mate Nensi ; khydt. The text of it was here and there a litt: tio 
grammati incorrect, and I am indeb danit of 
Jodhpur for nheesive ax inde soy to Kaviraja Murardanji 
