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Of no particular interest is a small devali walled in the 

 interior of a niche, which is found near the brim of the present 

 talava. It is in yelloAv Jesalmeri stone and represents a woman 

 with a child in her arms, evidently a mother who been me sail 

 after her son. The date is Samvat 1717. 



More interesting are two other devaUs which are found a 

 little distance from the wells, to the north. Both are in yellow 

 Jesalmeri stone and stand over a raised square platform. The 

 older of the two represents a horseman with three satis, and ha> 

 an inscription of 11 lines, covering a space of IT' high by 8|* 

 broad, and recording that Dhanno, a Cahuana of the Vaghora 

 gotra, passed from this world in the year' Samvat 1654, the 

 twelfth day of the bright fortnight of Pausa, and his three wives 

 became satis after him. The other inscription consists of 

 5 lines, covering a space of about 3|" high by 14£" broad, and 

 records that Hasa, the Jetuhga wife of Bhoja Raja of the 

 Vaghora gotra, immolated herself on the pyre of her dead 

 husband, the ninth day of the bright fortnight of PhtUguna, of the 

 year Samvat 1667. 



12. Nala. 



About 2 miles almost due north of the wells, is the village 

 of Xaja. Here the most characteristic feature of the place, 

 physically, is formed by seven or eight talais, or small tanks, 

 scattered around the village, which with the thorny shrubs and 

 trees clustered on their banks, make a pleasant variation from 

 the monotony of the desolate wilderness of that part of the 

 country. One of these talais. which is known under the name 

 of Kesolal i has on its bank a kirtistambha in red sand-stone 

 bearing an inscription of 6 lines, covering a space of Q" high 

 °y 7£" broad. The date of the inscription is not entirely 

 legible, but there can be no doubt that the record belongs to 

 the Samvat Century 1700. The object of the kirtistambha is 

 to record that the tank in question was caused to be made by 

 the Parihara Kesava— whence the name of KesoJaL which is 

 Perpetuated to this day. 



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Of the other few recent inscriptions which are found in or 

 a round the village, there is only one which is worth noticing. 



