11117.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Bajputana. 207 



probably something else which is meant instead. According to 

 a small marble inscription set up in the enclosure wall over 

 the entrance, the shrine, whose proper name was hi Bhavanf 

 Sankara prasdda, was first caused to be built by rava Vlko, and 

 then rebuilt by maharaja Ratana Siftgha in Sam vat 1901. 



Jagalu possesses three other small shrines, but these are 

 also recent. One is dedicated to Jhaboii, a Pa vara of Mukam — a 



village about 26 miles south-east of Jagaju and 21 south-east of 



Desanoka 



so madh 



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Samvat 1593. ' He is worshipped by the Visanols. The little 

 temple was built by the Visanols of Jagajii about a century 

 ago, and the special object of worship in it is a cold, 11 which is 

 believed to have belonged to Jhabojl. 



There are two wells at Jagaju and they have no inscrip- 

 tions, but for a red sand-stone devaU, which has been built 

 into the wall of one of them. The inscription on this devafj 

 is much effaced and for a great part quite illegible, but the 



date #^j i\%o [^] *fl«r ?jf^ * (?) can still be read in the first 



and second line, and also the name jpr JIT^T (sic), in the 

 fourth line. 



2. Rasisara. 



Rasisara is a village about 4 miles south of Desanoka. 

 and about 10 east of Jagalu. According to the tradition 

 mentioned above, Rasisara was the first place where Raya Si, 

 the Sakhalo, halted after leaving Runa. As the name of the 

 village is evidently derived from Raya Si, it seems reasonable 

 to conclude that it was founded by him. 



I have not visited Rasisara. but my traveller Slta Rama 

 has done it for me, and has brought from there impressions of 

 three cfe?;a2t-inscriptians which he found near the well of the 

 village. The oldest of these is dated in the year Samvat 1288. 

 the 1 5th day of the dark fortnight of Jaistha, Saturday, and 

 records the death of a Cahuvana Vikrama Singha. the son of 

 Lakhana. The inscription consists of 4 lines, covering a space 

 of 9r 'high bv 14"-14|" broad. 



1. wf 3 ii *N^ \r= c *« *" 



2. f%^*ifw^ ^Tiw 



3. 5TWHT $3 fW*- 



The inscription is important, inasmuch as it proves that the 

 village was founded before Samvat 1288. 



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1 This date was given me by the pujari. -vmhol 



« A sort of coat worn by tfdht*. 3 Expressed by a symbol. 



