80 



»/ 



[N.S., XII, 



here. Mahadeva explains that the head is that of the wife of 

 Jasavanta, who unlike all other warriors, has given him two 

 heads at one time. Parvati gets frightened : God forbid that 

 my husband does the same to me ! , but Mahadeva dispels her 

 fears by the assurance, which sounds like a reproach, that he 

 does not take the heads of cowards. 



I have tried to identify the hero who forms the subject of 

 the song, and ascertain his epoch, and have succeeded to an 

 appreciable extent. The manuscripts, from which I have 

 derived the Dinga]a text, do not supply any information con- 

 cerning Jasavanta, except G, which has a few introductory 

 lines where it is stated that Jasavanta had married a BhatI 



u u°Z ? ha * an ^ ra and w as in this city when it was assailed 

 by the Muhammadans, and on this occasion he fell in the fray 

 in the manner related above. Much more precise information is 

 supplied by the Khyata of Muhanota Nena Si. Here we can 

 not only identify the personality of Jasavanta, but also trace 

 his pedigree to Kirtipala, the founder of the Sonigara branch of 

 the Cahamana tribe, to which he belonged. As the genealogi- 

 cal tree of the Sonigaras, as farasRanadhlra, who is mentioned 

 in an inscription dated Sarnvat 1443 has been given by D. A. 

 Bhandarkar m his paper » The Chahamanas of Marwar " ', I 

 need report here only the portion of the genealogy which goes 

 from Vanavlra to Jasavanta :— 



(1) Vanavlra (Sarnvat 1394). 



(2) Ranadhira 

 (Sarnvat 1443). 



! 



(2) Rsno 



(3) Rajadhara ( 3) Kelhana. 



(+ Sam vat 1482 ?) 



<l)Khfvd. 



(4) Dudo. (4) Karma Canda. 



(3) Lolo 



(4) Sato 



(5) Sivata. (5) Je Singha 



I 



(5) Khivo. 



(6) Ranadhira. 



r 



(7) Akhe Raja 

 (+ Sam vat 1600). 



(8) Bhoja, 



(9) Singha. 



(10) Jasavanta 



(8) Mfina Singha 

 (9) Jasavaiifca 



1 Ep.Ind., Vol. XI (1911), pp. 26-79. 



