1916.] 



»/ Eajputana. 107 



and whilst singing they display before the eyes of their audi- 

 tors a long sheet of cloth on which the most salient events in the 

 lite ot the hero are represented in colours. 



So far there seems to be no evidence extant for fixing any 

 particular date in connection with the life of Pabu. But if he 

 was the grand-grandson of rava Siho, as the tradition implies we 

 can sately, though approximately, place his life in the second half 

 ot the bamvat-century 1300, probably the seventh or eighth 

 decades, a period roughly corresponding to the second and third 

 decades in the fourteenth century a.d. The chief point of 

 reterence for the above calculation is the date in rava Siho's 

 tuneral stone, which is V. Samvat 1330 ( = 1273 a.d.) (seeD R 

 Bhandarkar in Ind. Ant, XI, 1911, pp. 181-3), and also 'the 

 date of an inscription referring to Dhuhara, a brother of Dhg- 

 dhala which is V. Samvat 1366 ( = 1310 a!d.) (Ibid., p. 301). 



Of no great help, because later in time, are some epigra- 

 pAical records, which are found at Kolu, the village of Pabu 



i*i* if* ° ldeSt amon S st them refer to ^e V. Samvat years 

 1415 1483, and 1515. There are two little temples, ' dedicated 

 to tabu, m the neighbourhood of the village, and it is here 

 that these epigraphical records are found. The oldest record is 

 engraved under a stone image of Pabu, and mentions the erec- 

 tion of the temples in the year Samvat 1415, when Sohara, a 

 unadhala Rathora, the son of Sobha, the son of Khlvara', the 

 son (?) of Devathana (?), was the ruler or jaqirdar of the 

 place : — 9 



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The second inscription is likewise engraved under a stone - 

 image of Pabu, and records that the same was caused to be set 

 up by Dhadhala Pa(ha ?), in the year Samvat 1483, under the 

 ieign of mahardjadhirdja Lavakhana (?) : — 



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