1916.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 109 



Of little interest, from the historical, point of view, are 

 the names of the Dhadhala Rathoras recorded in the three 

 inscriptions quoted above. Pabu was killed when little more 

 than a boy, and had no sons. His brother Buro had a 

 posthumous son, but it is not known if the latter had any 

 descendants. There are still a few Dhadhala Rathoras at 

 Kolu, and they claim to have descended from Ud£ Singha, 

 one of the sons of Dhadhala. 1 According to the tradition 

 orally preserved by them, Dhadhala had 15 sons, of which 

 Ude Singha was the first, Buro the second, and Pabu the 

 thirteenth. Jasavanta Singha and Bhura Singha, the oldest 

 and apparently best informed Dhadhalas in the village, gave 

 me the following genealogical list of their ancestors : — (1) 

 Dhadhala, (2) Ude Singha, (3) Rama Singha, (4) Gaja Singha, 

 (5) Likhamana Singha, (6) Deva Raja, (7) Khiva Karana, 

 (8) Sobhata, (9) Sohara and Kamo, (10) Godo, (11) Neto, 

 (12) Vagho, (13) Sli Dasa, (14) Rupo, (15) Neto, (16) Hara 

 Rama, (17) Maha Singha, (18) Ano, (19) Bhuro. The list is 

 evidently incorrect, as it gives too many names to fill the 

 period between Dhadhala (about Samvat 1350) and Sohara 

 (Sam vat 1415), and too few for the period between Sohara 

 (Samvat 1415) and Bhuro (Samvat 1970). I wonder if Deva 

 Raja is the same as the Devathana of the first inscription. 



A short distance from the two temples, there is a well, called 

 the Gujavo kud, which the local tradition identifies with the well 

 near which Pabu was killed, after he had drawn water for the 

 rescued cows. On the other side, between the temples and the 

 village, there is a tank, which is called Pabusara, after the name 

 of the hero, and on its slopes there are some chattrh and many 

 funeral stones. One of the stones under the chattrts bears an 

 inscription, in which — though much of the writing is illegible — 

 the date Samvat 1563 can be safely read, and also the phrase : 

 rava Surija Mala r[e] vare ( = " at the time of rava Surija 

 Mala [of Jodhpur] "), and the names Sohara, Godo and Ghara 

 Si. The village of Kolu, which numbers only a few houses at 

 the present day, seems to have been a rather populous one in 

 former times. A khyata of the time of maharaja Jasavanta 

 Singha of Jodhpur describes it as being inhabited by 20 

 Rajputs, 130 Banias, 210 Thorls, 300 Muhammadans and 210 

 Dhedhas (see Descriptive Catalogue, sect, i, pt. i, No. 12), and 

 further states that the village was given in sasana to the bhopas 

 of Pabu by rava Gago of Jodhpur. 



1 In most of the Bikaner chronicles, Pabu himself is represented as 

 a son of Ude Singha. Cfr. the following account, which is taken from the 

 Khyata of Dayala Dasa (see Deacr. Cat., Sect, i, pt. ii, Xo. 1):-— 



**T <fte wi | ej^ to} ^ot VR^ft (p. 47 b.) 



