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the god Siva. One day the king of Chitod died, and left no 
heir to his throne. It was decided that whosoever would be 
garlanded by a certain elephant was to be placed on the throne. 
ap& was present on the occasion. The elephant put the gar- 
land round his neck not only once but thrice. Bapa was thus 
the medicine. He came to know the whole fact. He t ed 
like a cane, and said: ‘‘I ama — and you gave me 
medicine mixed in liquor. Ihave lost my caste.’’ So saying 
he drank molten lead (sisa) and forthwith ‘lied, and hence arose 
the family name Sisodiyaé. The eldest son of Bapaji was Khu- 
mana, who became ruler of Chitod. His second son was Dhana- 
ka, who, through fear of Khumana, fled away from Chitod to 
the Vindhyas on the Narmada......... The account speaks 
for itself, and allows us safely to infer that the Brahmana origin 
of the Guhilots was fresh in the minds of the people even so late 
as the middle of the nineteenth century. 
What are the facts then? First we find that the founder 
of the dynasty was one Guhadatta, after whom the various 
names of the family, Guhilaputra, Gobhilaputra, Guihilota, 
Gehlot and so forth were named. It need scarcely be further 
said that Guhila is but an abbreviated form of Guhadatta, just 
ha 
V.E. 1034 to have belonged to the family of Brahmanas who 
came from Anandapura “This means that it was a Guhadatta, 
but his ancestors ates migrated from Anandapura. And this 
is also expressly stated in the Ekali nga-mahdtmya. “Thirdly, as 
the ancestors of Guhadatta are said to have come from Ananda- 
pura (Vadnagar), it can be reasonably concluded that they 
were Nagar Brahmanas. And this receives confirmation from 
it pertained to the Yajurveda. Fifthly, this Brahmana origin 
. the Guhilots continues to be remembered almost to the present 
y: 
If these dea were thus originally Brahmanas, how is 
it that they became Kshatri triyas ? This is the question that 
must now nadie. arise. It is true that, in ee - 
answer it, we are treading not quite upon ‘terra rma ; yet 
view might be expressed, which, I believe, will not be recht 
