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15. j?tt ij^tt h. 



The second inscription is also in corrupt Sanskrit, and 

 eontains 10 lines of writing, of which the first six cover a space 

 of 4 V high by 10 J" broad, and the remaining four only a space 

 of 2J" high by 5* broad. Much like in the first inscription, 

 here too the letters are spoilt by whitewash, especially in the 

 centre, where they are also worn out. Interesting words are : 

 taddhita (1. 3) which, if I am not mistaken, seems to be used in 

 the sense of tadtiya, and laya (11. 6-7), which is known from 

 other inscriptions. 



The inscription opens with the date [Vikrama-] Samvat 

 1227, sudi 10, and first of all refers to the victorious reign of 

 the mahdrajddhirdja paramesvara Kelhana Deva, at Nadula, the 

 chief town in the Saptasatabhumi . Next it mentions the rule of 

 the mahardjaputra Cdmunda Raja over Mandavyapura, and lastlv 

 records a grant of 1 drarnma made by Nanada, the son of 

 Samagha (?), from the amount of some cess, at JMmara, one of 

 the four pddras in the bhumi of Mandavyapura. The donor is 

 described as a Rastauda, i.e. a Rdthdra Rajput, but the meaning 

 of virau, which is appended to Rastauda, is not clear to me. 



Kelhana Deva, the Cahamana king of Nadula, is well 

 known from other inscriptions, bearing dates ranging from [V.] 

 Samvat 1221 to 1249. Saptasatabhumi is undoubtedly the same 

 as the Saptasatavisaya of the Sevan copper- plates of Ratna 

 Pala (V.S. 1176) (Ep. Ind., XI, pp. 304-13), and from the pres- 

 ent inscription it is clear that this expression designated the 

 whole of the territory then held by the Cahamanas under their 

 sway. Very interesting is the mention of the mahardjaputra 

 Cdmunda Raja as the ruler of Mandavyapura. Camunda Raja 

 is a new name, not yet found in any other inscription, and so far 

 it is impossible to decide whether he was a son of Alhana or of 

 Kelhana Deva. Whoever he was, it suffices here to know that 

 Gaja Singha, who was the ruler of Mandavyapura in V. Samvat 

 1219, had been succeeded by Camunda Raja in V. Samvat 

 1227. A few years later, in V. Samvat 1241, the ruler of Man- 

 davyapura was Sodhala, a son of Kelhana (see Journ. As. Soc. 

 of Be., X, 1914, pp. 406-7). We have thus an apparently con- 

 tinuous list of the Cahamana rulers of Mandora from V. Sam- 

 vat 1219 to 1241. JhUmara is evidently the same as Jhamara 

 seen above, and from the present inscription it is evident that 

 this village was one of the four padras included in the territory 

 (bhumi) of Mandavyapura. The mention of a Rastauda as the 

 donor, is of great importance inasmuch as it shows that Rat ho - 

 ras were found at Mandora at least as early as V. Samvat 1227. 

 J?or other Rathora families living in Rajputana, even before 

 this period, see D. R. Bhandarkar's note in Ep. Ind., XI, p. 71. 



