70 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1912. 
also, if anybody wants to know how it has become a proper 
na t is plain, that it is here a term of the Gujarati 
language. Bapa’s mother Vichitra-Kunwari Bai, daughter of 
the Chauhan family, was a resident of Gujarat and he was born 
and brought up in the house of Ravala Vishveshvara Bhatta or 
his son Raghuraya, the family priest and a Nagar Brahman of 
Anandapur, in Gujarat. Accordingly, in the Gujarati language 
it means both a ‘‘child and father’’; as a?! aul A He 
#@? O child, what are you doing, and at arar aul Bar 
his real janma-nam or birth-name, given by the astrologers, 
when his nam-karan-samskar (the religious ceremony of a newly- 
born child) was performed by the family priest, Raghuraya, 
was ‘‘ Visvapati.’’ 
nection whatever with the head priest, Haritarasi, or his sect 
of ascetics and flourished long before them, i.e. B and 
Guhadatta or Gubila were in sixth or seventh Sehiration after 
them. It is said in the aforesaid Mahatmya :— 
TEXT. 
qe Gat saat aaafad aya quer Haz | 
AMT USe AAT aya UTS watai a 9 8 | 
TOUT Maat Uta MISH Tat warfamsey: | 
Ware ay: Barwa agent yy | 
TRANSLATION. 
‘4. His son was Naga Raula by name, who by his religious 
austerities made the whole world happy, and was an object of 
admiration to the Smrities. 
is son was of the name of Bhoga Raula, who was 
adorable in (this) world to the kings; his son was Asadhara ; 
and his son was Sri-deva.’’ : 
