1917.] Bardic and Histl. Survey of Bajputana, 210 



As regards the circumstances under which the talava of 

 Kodarnadesara came to be called after the mother of Jodho, 

 we can only make conjectures. The easiest explanation, which 

 suggests itself and is less inconsistent with the local tradition. 

 is that Kodama De must have immolated herself on the bank 

 of the talava. We know from the chronicles, that the other 

 wives of rava Kina Mala, as soon as thev heard of their 

 husband's assassination at Cltora, burned themselves in a 

 unique pyre at Sojhata. Some of the chronicles give their 

 names ' and amongst these there is not Kodama De. Evidently, 

 she was not at Sojhata at the time. If we are allowed to 

 make a conjecture, it is not unreasonable to suppose that she 

 had gone to her paternal home in Pugala, and whilst there she 

 heard of her husband's death, and went to the talava, which 

 now bears her name, and burned herself. Possibly, she heard 

 the news on her way from or to Pugala, when halting at 

 Kodarnadesara, and burned herself on the spot. Kodarna- 

 desara is just on the road from Pugala to Mandora. Rava 

 Jodhd must have visited the place soon afterwards, for the 

 Mudhiyara rl Khyata and other chronicles say that it was at 

 Kodarnadesara that he performed the bariyd or funeral cere- 

 mony of the 12th dav, after the death of his father. As a 

 matter of fact, Jodhd took refuge hi the Thaji. after fleeing 

 from Citora the night when Kina Mala was assassinated, and 

 topped at Jagalu Kodarnadesara, and Kahuni. 4 It was not on 

 this occasion, however, that Jodho caused the hrtistambha to 

 be set up in honour of his mother, at Kodarnadesara, but only 



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(Mftdhiyara rl Khyata). 

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