Vol. V, No. 6.] —— Guhilots. 179 
[N.S.] 
TRANSLATION. 
‘‘A Brahmana is the first cause of (his) extraction, but 
(we) regard (him) as a Kshatriya. He is the ornament of Anamda- 
pura, (and) his (capital) town, we say, was Ahora. Under him 
were united multitudes of armies, Ravas, Ranas, great soldiers 
and feudatory chieftains. All kings and prec eptors joined the 
Gahalota eal It is said that this incomparable athlete Bapa 
exercised supremacy immovable like the pole star. The god 
_ Ekalinga, bene pleased, bestowed the regal throne on him.’ 
e second chhappaya is not here cited, as it has no direct 
bearing on the present subject. But it states at the end that 
Bapa was the son of Guhadita (Guhaditya), and specitics ceva 
as the name of the composer of the poem. This peem is in a 
Marwari dialect called Dinga], and cannot be much ‘aalies — 
the time of Mata Nensi, and in it, it is distinctly mentioned, as 
have just seen, that Bapa was originally a Brahmana but - 
of the people. Nay, wink: is most surprising is that this origin 
was not unknown even till after the middle of the 19th century 
when the work called Tawdrikh Mélwvdé was composed by Munshi 
Karimud-din. This book, as the name implies, deals with 
the history of the whole of Malwa, and thus gives an account 
of the Badhvini State governed by a Sisodiya family. It gives 
a long Sena pison of the way in which its founder came to obtain 
Badhva The author distinctly tells us that it is based on 
the authority of uae who must, I think, be taken to na the 
family priest of the Sisodiya chiefs of Badhvani. A summary 
of it, for which I am indebted to Munshi Devi Scant is as 
follows! : ‘‘ The capital of this royal family was at first at 
Chitod. It afterwards was Adasgadh. The founder was Dha- 
naka. He was a BRAHMANA and was called Gahlot. [Then 
follows a long ge nealogy from Udaya to Grahadata.] son 
of simmer subg was Sri-Bapaji.2 He succeeded in pees 
Ee so ae ee 
1 My attention to this was, however, first drawn by Pandit Gauri- 
Magers’ Ojha. 
i thie account the author 
Brah Riana But this is a mistake, the earlier inscriptions unmis 
pointing to their originally having been Nagar 
once tells us that Bapa was a aakctty 
