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9. " The Sonigaro and (his) faithful (wife) have died with 

 great valour, and they have displayed a great determination. 



I do not take the heads of cowards ! "— (Thus) spaketh Sari- 

 kara, and (Parvati), the wife of the terrible god, ceased to fear. 



3. The History of Phalodhi and the Local 



Inscriptions. 



The oldest document in connection with the history of 

 Phalodhi, that seems to be extant, is an inscription in the 

 temple of Kalyana Raya, bearing the date Vikrama Samvat 

 1236 (=1180-1 a.d.). From this inscription it appears that the 

 old name of the place was something like Vijayapura or Ajaya- 

 pura— the reading is doubtful—, and that, at the time men- 

 tioned above, this city formed part of the territory of Vikra- 

 mapura (Bikampur), and was under the rule of rand Katia, a 

 Pavara feudatory of maharaja Prithl Raja, the Cahamana ruler 

 of Ajmer. This is in accordance with the tradition contained 

 in the Jodhpur MS. 1 2, l where it is stated that the old name of 

 the place was Vijayanagari and that it was in the hands of the 

 Pavaras. The same MS. 12 mentions an inscription dated 

 Samvat 1145 and referring to raja Hatha Deva Pavara. as 

 existing in the temple of Kalyana Raya, but here, apparently, 

 there is a mistake in the reading, and it is the aforesaid in- 

 scription that is meant by it. In the text of the inscription, 

 rand Katia is described as a son of the mahdsdmanta Palhana, 

 a Pavara of the Kaundinyasagotra. This Palhana is in all 

 probability the same as Palhana Si, the son of Sakhalo Cho- 

 hala, the founder of the Runeca branch of the Pavaras. Ac- 



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cording to Muhanota NenaSl, Udaga, the son of Bhoho, a 



nephew of Chohala, was also one of the sdmantas of king Prithl 

 Raja. 



The afore-mentioned inscription is possibly responsible for 

 the origin of a legend referring to king Prithi Raja, which is 

 contained in a manuscript in the Darbar Library of Bikaner. 

 The MS. dates as far back as the end of the Samvat-Century 

 1600, and is described in the Descriptive Catalogue, Sect, i, 

 Pt. ii, No. 2. The legend is found on pp. 37a-6 of the MS. 

 It says that there was a DahiyanI maid, her name Ajiya De, 

 who was being taken to Ajmer to be married to king Prithl 

 Raja. On the way, the Dahiyas who escorted her, stopped in 

 some part of the Jagalu-country, and there Ajiya De caused 

 a stronghold to be made, which, after her own name, she 

 called Ajiyapura. In the course of time, Prithl Raja came to 



1 Descriptive Catalogue, Sect, i, pt. i. 



