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named Phuludhl ro vasa from Phuludhl, a Pallivala brahmanl 

 who had come to live there. It is after the name of this brah- 

 man! that Naro called the new city Phalodhl. I have already 

 dealt with the value of this explanation. MS. 12 proceeds to 

 describe how the new city was inhabited. It was Naro's good 

 luck that just in those days a certain Sidhu Kalo, formerly 

 an inhabitant of Asanikota in the territory of Jesalmer owina 

 to a difference he had with the ravala, left Ids country and 

 emigrated eastwards with a train of 140 cars and a great num- 

 bers of followers. When he halted at Phalodhf , Nar6 entreated 

 him to remain there, and he eventually accepted and popu- 

 lated the new city. 



The chronicles give no date for Naros settlement at Phalo- 

 dhi. But from the inscription found under the porch of the 

 innermost gate of the fort, which is dated Sam vat 1532 (see 

 inscr. No. 2, below), we can conclude that it took place some 

 time before this date. From the same inscription it also ap- 

 pears that the inmost enclosure of the fort was not erected by 

 rava Hamira, as is generally believed, but by Naro himself. 

 The tradition says that Naro was not satisfied with the posses- 

 sion of Phalodhl, a city deficient in water and gardens and 

 situated in the midst of an arid desert, and looked with covet- 

 ous eyes to the neighbouring Pohakarana, ready to avail him- 

 self of the first opportunity for occupying it. Meanwhile, rava 

 batala had been killed at Kosano — it was the year Samvat 1546 

 —and as he had no sons, his brother Sujo, the father of Naro, 

 had succeeded him on the throne of Jodhpur. Satala had 

 founded Satalamera,' some 5 miles from Pohakarana, and since 

 during his lifetime he had adopted Naro as his son, it is prob- 

 able that at his death, if not before, the latter added Satala- 

 mera to his domain of Phalodhl. So he was knocking at the very 

 door of Pohakarana. This city was, at the time, in the hands 

 of Rathora rava Khivo, the son of Varajaga Durajana Salota. 

 Naro had not long to wait for his opportunity. All accounts 

 agree in showing that it was by surprise he was able to carry 



out his ambitious design. He had some spies at Pohakarana 



Muhanota Nena Si says his chief instrument was his own <piro- 

 hita, — and when these one day reported to him that Khivo had 

 gone to a feast at Ugarasa. he lost no time and at the head of 

 his horsemen fell upon Pohakarana and occupied it. Accord- 

 ing to the tradition, the fort of Pohakarana had no doors at 

 the time. 



The conquest of Pohakarana brought no good luck to Naro. 

 The dispossessed rava Khivo and his son Luko sought a refuse 

 in the neighbourhood of Baharamera and Kotaro and from there 



l According to the Bhati chronicles, Satalamera was founded by 

 »atala, the son of ravala Kehara. 



