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but only with the help of DSgara Si who bartered his personal 

 liberty with the sovereignty of the place. It is related that 

 JJugara bi was taken under the ramparts of Phalodhl and 

 there shouted to brave Jaga Hatha to open the gates to Mala 

 -De. Jaga Hatha obeyed and Mala De entered the fort which 

 -says MS 12-he kept for 15 years, till his death which oc- 

 curred in Sam vat 1619 It would therefore seem that Phalo- 

 dhi tell into the hands of Mala De about the year Samvat 1604 

 Rava Mala De left two sons, by his Jhali wife Sarupa De • 

 Candra Sena and Ude Singha. The former succeeded his 

 lather on the throne of Jodhpur, and the latter inherited Pha- 

 lodhl The facts in the long period of struggle and unrest that 

 8Jf J rom fche death of Mala De to the final establishment of 

 Ude Singha as the only and undisputed ruler of Marwar, be- 



mi Tu re t0 the histor y of Jodhpur, generally, than that of 

 ^halodhi. But Phalodhl had a great part in the first period of 



the struggle. It was from Phalodhl Ude Singha made on Ghl- 

 ghanf that bold raid, which was promptly and severely retali- 

 ated by Candra Sena and would have cost Ude Singha his life, 

 but for the devotion of Khlci Hado and the wisdom of the Raj- 

 puts who did not allow Candra Sena to pursue and kill his own 

 brother. In the year Samvat 1627 Ude Singha sustained ano- 

 ther serious defeat at Kundala at the hands of Dugara Si, the 

 Bhati ruler of Vikamapura. The cause of the "contest was a 

 caravan from Bikaner, which both Dugara Si and Ude Singha 

 wanted to make pass through their own cities, to have the 

 benefit of exacting toll. The last-mentioned fact and the fact 

 of the raid alluded to above, combine to show that Phalodhl 

 was not in a prosperous condition when in the hands of Ude 

 Singha. The defeat of Kundala eventually made those condi- 

 tions worse, for, it is stated, Ude Singha was not able to take 

 shelter in the fort of Phalodhl, but had to retire and the Bhatls 

 plundered the country. Four years afterwards Phalodhl fell 

 into the hands of Bhakhara Si, a son of ravala Hara Raja, and 

 remained under him till the year Samvat i635, when Akbar 

 gave it to raja Raya Singha of Bikaner. 



The rule of the raja of Bikaner marks for Phalodhl a 

 period of peace and prosperity. Raya Singha first sent to 

 govern the city the Rathora Kadhala Mala De Vanavlrota, and 

 later the Muhanota Karma Canda Sagavata, who brought to 

 Phalodhl a number of new settlers from Bikaner. It seems 

 that the outermost wall enclosure of the fort had its founda- 

 tions laid by raja Raya Singha, whose name is recorded in the 

 oldest of the inscriptions incised on the same wall (inscr. No. 5, 

 of Samvat 1650). Phalodhl remained under Bikaner for near- 

 ly forty years, till in Samvat 1672 Jahangir assigned it to raja 

 Suraja Singha of Jodhpur, as an allotment equivalent to the 

 sum of R s . 6,75,000 (MS. 12). Suraja Singha deputed to govern 

 the place the Muhanota Je Mala— the father of Nena Si, the 



