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kings of Mewar; and the new Anandapura theory advocates in 
opposition to it, that the chiefs of Mewar were originally 
Nagara Brahmanas of Anandapura or Vadnagar in Gujarat and 
afterwards they have become Ksatriyas. 
Colonel Tod’s translation of the inscription is questioned 
now on the basis of a transcript of it, which is said to have 
lately been discovered from the Jain Bhandara of Gyanji Jati, 
the Pandit employed by Tod, at Mandal in Mewar. It has 
lately seen the light of the day, being published by Mr. 
Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar, M.A., of Poona.! 
copy of it is appended to this paper, marked B. How 
he got it, he himself says :— 
‘And it was hoped that every thing would be clear only 
if Gyan Chand’s transcript of the Aitpoor inscription were 
traced in his Bhandara. But here again nobody knew where 
his Bhandara was. This mystery has now been unravelled by 
Pandit Gaurishankar Ojha, of the Rajputana Museum, Ajmere. 
As was surmised, Gyan Chand’s transliteration could also be 
traced in that Bhandara, and I am indebted to the Pandit for 
having supplied me with a copy of it, without which it would 
ave been somewhat difficult to write this note.>’’ 
‘But the matter is placed beyond all doubt by a co 
sent to me by Pandit Gaurishankar Ojha, of the transcript 
anterior to the Chitorgadh epigraph 
And in a footnote on this statement he further says :— 
Before Mr. Bhandarkar’s 
this inscription, the author of th 
as reconstructed the history of t 
this transcript. He says:— 
‘* The twelve names from Khuman I. to Saktikumar are 
f 
, recently discovered at Mandal in the 
whom Tod employed, it 
8, and it may be added 
that these names are all confirmed by other fnsttiptionie.? : 
pp Ei cea 
: » Pp. 186-7, 
* J. and P. of A.S.B., Vol. V, No. Vi, p. 177, 
