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famous chronicler — as hakim, and the Cahamana Slkharo as 

 thanedar. But after two years, Suraja Si hgha asked the em- 

 peror to resume the pargana of Phalodhl, probably because he 

 did not find it sufficiently remunerative, whereupon the em- 

 peror assigned it to raja Sura Singha Rayasinghota of Bikaner. 

 What followed affords us a conspicuous example of the jealousy 

 then existing between the Rathoras of Jodhpur and the Rathoras 

 of Bikaner, in spite of their being kindred in blood and des- 

 cendants from a common ancestor. Sura Singha had hardly 

 arranged for a hakim, in the person of Muhanota Bhaga Canda 

 Karmacandota, to go and take possession of Phalodhl, that 

 Suraja Singha of Jodhpur, rather than see the place go to 

 enlarge his rival's territory, resolved to retain it, and imme- 

 diately despatched to Phalodhi his eldest son kdvara Gaja Sin- 

 gha, with instructions for hakim Je Mala not to consign the 

 fort to anybody, as he had decided not to surrender his native 

 place and was going to write to the emperor to have Phalodhl 

 re-assigned to himself. This he did, and so Phalodhl was 

 restored back to Suraja Singha. 



When Suraja Singha died, in the year Sam vat 1676, Pha- 

 lodhl did not pass to his successor Gaja Singha, but remained 

 in the possession of Sabala Singha, a son Suraja Singha had 

 had from his Alien wife, Sulatana De. Probably Sabala Singha 

 had been assigned Phalodhl in fief by his father, some time 

 before the latter's death. During the rule of Sabala Singha, 

 which seems to have been a very brief one, Phalodhi once fell 

 into the hands of the Muhammadans, but was eventually re- 

 covered. In the year Samvat 1680, or, according to MS. 12, 

 1679, Phalodhi was added to the khalisa of Gaja Singha and 

 except for a few temporary changes has ever since continued 

 in the possession of the maharajas of Jodhpur. In Samvat 

 1863 it was for a second time added to the domains of Bikaner 

 by maharaja Surata Singha, who retained it till Samvat 1865. 

 The history of Phalodhl from the time of Gaja Singha to our 

 days is too mixed with that of Jodhpur and unimportant to 

 deserve any special notice. 



Let us now turn to the study of the most noteworthy in- 

 scriptions which are extant at Phalodhl and serve to illustrate the 

 concise historical sketch given above. They are the following :— 



Inscr. No. I : An inscription incised on the left pillar of 

 the inner shrine in the temple of Kalyana Raya. It consists 

 of 28 lines of writing covering a space of 24J" high by 14J " to 

 13* # broad. The text is in a mixture of corrupt Sanskrit 

 and Bhasa, and the writing very incorrect and illegible at some 

 points. The chief orthographical peculiarities of the inscrip- 

 tion are : the representing of the virama by the diacritical sign 

 for u, and the writing of sr for initial ^, and * for *c and *r. 



The inscription is dated in the year [Vikrama-] Samvat 

 1236, the 10th day of the bright fortnight of the first month of Asa- 



