1917.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajputana. 20;* 



A certain Ajiya De, daughter to Hard, a Dahiyo of Rin6 (?), 

 was being escorted to Ajmer to be married to Prithl Raja. 

 On her way, she passed through the Jagalu country, and. 

 finding it uninhabited, resolved to populate it and caused there 

 a fort to be built, which, after her own name, she called 

 Ajiy&pura. Subsequently, raja Prithl Raja came to Ajiyapura 

 to hunt, and there met Ajiya De, whom he took to Ajmer. 

 whilst the Dahiyas who formed her escort remained in the 

 fort she had caused to be founded. Fantastical as the above 

 account is, there is one particular in it which is certainly 

 correct, namely the mention of Ajiyapura. or rather Ajayapura. 

 as the old name of the capital of the Jagalu country. 1 The 

 '•orrectness of this name is confirmed by the inscription in the 

 Sivalaya of Jagalu. which is described below. As for the means 

 by which the Sakhalas succeeded in taking Jagalu, or Ajaya- 

 pura, from the Dahiyas, the account in the above-mentioned 

 Bikaner Manuscript mainlv concords with that in the Chronicle 

 of Xena Si. Raya Si, the emigrator from Runa. first estab- 

 lished 'himself at Raslsara, a village about 10 miles north-east 

 of Jagalu. From Raslsara he directed his ambitious aims to 

 the possession of Jagalu, and found a precious instrument to 

 Ms schemes in Keso. an upadhiyo brahmin of the Dahiyas. 

 Acting after the advice of this traitor, he sent to the Dahiyas 

 cocoanuts to offer in marriage the Sakhall maids, and when the 

 Dahivas accepted and came to Raslsara to be married he 

 intoxicated them with wine mixed with dhaturd, and then 

 slaughtered them all. According to Nena Si another stratagem 

 crowned the success of the fraud. Fifty covered carts, pre- 



endhig to carrv the brides, were taken to Jagalu. and when 

 the Dahiva fathers opened the gate to give admission to whom 

 thev thought to be the brides of their sous, the purdahs on the 



arts were torn open, and out there came the Sakha a mur- 

 derers to massacre the fathers with the same swords with which 

 they hart massacred their sons. In this way Raya hi made 



himself lord of Jagalu. , . , . -„ A 



Nena Si gives the genealogies of the descendants of ra no 



Raya Si as far as rand Goy.nda Dasa ; who »P*f**» J™ 

 15th generation. The names of the successors of Raya bi 

 are the following: Anakha Sl_> Khiva Si > Kavara S > 

 Raja Si > Karama Si. Mu"j6 > Udo > Je Singha. Puna J* . > 



Manika Rftva > Napo > Raya Paja > *££»>*£; 



Raja > Isara Dasa > Goyanda Dasa. Kavara Si had married 

 Bharamala, the daughter of a Kharalo clnef ruling over a 

 illage 10 kos from Pugaja and 15 from Vikapara. Je 8riigha 



7^ ^ 1" <w 1QI5 dd 85-6, I had connected 



> In my •< Progress Report *° r '^iva go with Viajayapura, the 



the name Ajayapura and the legend of W"* w * ' p < f- D 



incorrect spelling m the PModhl'nscr^ ^ 



kamvat 1236. It seems, however, very OOUDWUi 



ft ny connection between the two names. 



