1917.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Rajp u tu n a . i'l 7 



One of the inscriptions, which is dated in the year Sarnvat 

 1695 (?), gives, the name of Morakhano as Morakhiydnd gama. 

 To the present day, the jagirdars of the place are Bhati. 



Lastly, there is in Morakhano a Sivalaya, consisting of 



~1 * Jl #7 1 • "■ • ,t m a 



shrine 



and in no 



way interesting except for the tradition which identifies the 

 linga worshipped in it, with the one near which Susan! sought 

 protection and prayed to be destroyed. The Sivalaya and the 

 temple of SusanI are the only paJcha buildings in the village 

 and will continue to remain so for very long, in homage to an 

 injunction by the above-mentioned goddess that nobody should 

 build a palcka house within the village territory. This explain- 

 why the haveli of the jagirdars of the place, though it waa 

 built very large at the cost of about ten thousand rupees, has 

 walls plastered with mud like the poorest hut 



10. KODAMADl-SARA. 



Kodamadesara is a very small village about 11 mile- to 

 the west of Bikaner. The place is famous for two things : the 

 tank, which in the cold season is much frequented by grouse 

 and bustards and only second to Gajanera in celebrity., and the 



bank 



the tank and is believed to have been brought from Mandora 

 by rava Vlko himself when he first came to establish himself 

 in the Jagaju count rv. I visited the place on December 21ri 

 1916, and found four inscriptions with dates ranging from 



Samvat 1516 to Sarnvat 1630. 



The oldest of the above-mentioned inscriptions is engraved 

 on two faces of a Krtistombha in red sand-stone, which is 

 extant on the eastern bank of the tank, not far from the image 

 of Bhenl. The UirHstambha has four faces with different sculp- 

 tures carved on each of them, to wit: Ganapati towards trie 



east, Visnu (or the Sun?) towards the south l>.ahma(.) 

 towards the north, and the figure of a woman, perhaps Fanati, 

 in the act of worshipping a linga. the emblem of Malmdeva 

 towards the west. All the figures are standing, even that oi 

 Ganapati. The inscription is engraved on two faces ot the 

 stone, i.e. half on the noithern and half on the western face 

 under the figures. The first part of the inscription consists ot 

 ^even lines covering a space of of* high by of* ^^iT® 

 second part consists of five lines, covering a space of 4 high > 

 '!" broad. The characters are effaced in many p laces espe- 

 «iaUy in the first part of the inscription, where the stone is 

 also broken in two places. The inscription reads as follows. 



1. TO W< [ rf ] *T% U*M 



2. srawpn [ - WTr]T»nn3i 



