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dharmakdld. Originally, it formed part of a temple of Pa 

 vanatha, which is now seen in ruins outside the same village, 

 and some of the stone material of which seems to have been 

 used in the building of the said dharmaSala. I have not seen 

 the place, but edit the inscription from two impressions taken 

 by my travelling man Carana Ujala Rama Dayaja. 



The inscription consists of ten lines of writing, and covers 

 a space of 9" high by 10§" broad. The text is in a mixture of 

 corrupt Sanskrit and Bhasa. It opens with the date [Vikrama-] 

 Samvat 14[4]5, the third day of the bright fortnight of Asddha. 

 Monday, and after an allusion to the victorious reign of rand 

 Lalcha and the jurisdiction_of thdkura Mudana, refers to the 

 temple of ParSvanatha at Asalapuradurga. The object of the 

 inscription is to record that the Baly ana-ma ndapa , apparently 

 the same temple mentioned above, was repaired by saha Kadua 

 of the Upakesavamsa, Ligagotra, and his wife Kamala De, his 

 son Jaga Simha and others, for the sake of the increment of 

 their spiritual merits. At the end the testimony is given of 

 the whole sangha and the aforesaid thdkura Madana. 



Of the names mentioned in the inscription, rand hakim 

 is that of the famous ruler of Mewar, and Asalapura the old 

 name of the place where the inscription was found. Another 

 inscription, also found at Kota and giving Asalapura as the 

 name of the place, was published by D. R. Bhandarkar in 

 Ep. Ind., XI, pp. 62-3. The Samvat year is not clear in our 

 inscription, the third numerical figure looking more like 2 or 7 

 than 4, but from the fact that Lakha ascended the throne in 

 the year Samvat 1439 and was succeeded by Mokala in 1454, 

 it seems impossible that the date should be anything but 

 1445. 



The chief importance of the inscription lies in the fact 

 that it is the first epigraphic document of the rand of Mewar 's 

 direct rule over Godhavara. The Nadalal-inscription of 

 Cahamana Ranavlra (loc. cit., pp. 63-4), which is dated in the 

 year Samvat 1443, doe3 not contain any allusion to Ranavlra' s 

 subordinacy to Mewar. It would therefore seem that as far as 

 Samvat 1443 — only two years before the date of our inscription 

 — the Godhavara province still remained in the hands of the 

 Cahamanas. Whether Ranavlra and his father Vanavira, whom 

 Tod represents as having offered his services to rand Hamlra, 

 were still independent or had become tributaries of Mewar, it 

 is so far impossible to know. But one thing is certain : that 

 in the year Samvat 1445— -the date of our inscription — the 

 Cahamanas were no longer on their throne and Godhavara had 

 been incorporated into the rd?id 9 s domains. 



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