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Ajiyapura to hunt, and there he found Ajiya De, whom he took 

 with him to Ajmer. Afterwards the Dahiyas lost Jagalu to 

 the Sakhalas. The legend most probably originated from the 

 above-mentioned inscription, in which there is a mention of 

 king PfithI Deva and also of a city, the name of v which can be 

 read as [srl] Ajayapura. The statement that the Sakhalas were 

 in possession of the country is, evidently, correct. ^ 



When the place changed its old name of Vijayapura, or 

 Ajayapura, into that of Phalodhi, we do not know. According 

 to MS. 12, Vijayanagarl was successively depopulated by 

 famines and incursions of Muhammadans, till lastly it became 

 completely deserted when the Pavaras lost their domain of 

 Baharamera. It was on the ruins of Vijayanagarl that the 

 new city of Phalodhi was founded by rava Naro. How far the 

 above account is correct, it is difficult to say. Certain it is 

 that the name of Phalodhi brings us back to a much earlier 

 time than that of rava Naro. MS. 12 gives an explanation of 

 the name of Phalodhi, which is grossly artificial. Phalodhi, 

 as also proved by the inscriptions, is a derivation of Phalavar* 



, and there can be no doubt that the place had come to 

 be called so long before rava Naro settled there. 



All the Jodhpur Chronicles agree in tracing the Rath or a 

 colonization of Phalodhi back to the time of rava Sujo, who 

 was born in Samvat 1496 and succeeded to his brother Satala 

 on the throne of Jodhpur from Samvat 1546 to 1572. l The 

 task of colonizing the place fell to Naro, the younger of the 

 two sons Sujo had had from his BhatiyanI wife LikhamI, alias 

 Saranga De. According to the most popular account, it w,as 

 after a serious quarrel Naro had with Udo, one of his step- 

 brothers, that Sujo resolved to send the former away, and 

 gave him Phalodhi, where he established himself. Whatever 

 amount of truth there may be in this statement, and there 

 seem to be no reasons for suspecting it, we certainly need not 

 resort to an incident of that kind to find an explanation for 

 Naro's emigration. That was a period when the enormous 

 growth of the progeny of Slho, coupled with their increasing 

 power and ambition of conquest, made it imperative for any 

 prince of some enterprise who could not sit on the throne of 

 his father, to find out a domain for himself in some uncon- 

 quered part of the country. This fact is evidently implied in 

 another version — the one contained in MS. 12 — , according to 

 which Sujo sent Naro towards the West to inhabit some de- 

 populated land. Naro went and discovered the vestiges of the 

 old Vijayanagarl and the bed of the river, and decided to settle 

 there. The place was deserted, but for a small spot, 400 feet 

 from the modem fort, on the wav to Khimlda. which was 



Some chronicles give slightly different dates. 



