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extraordinary energy, [Viko] saved both the strongholds 

 repelling the Muhammadans. [Tt is only] the good and superior 

 folk who benefit strangers ; [whereas] the common folk benefit 

 [only] their own. 



The song that follows, is also in honour of rava Viko, and 



celebrates the resistance offered by him to a powerful coalition 



which was formed against him by rava Satala of Jodhpur, 

 ravala Del Dasa of Jesalmer, rava Sekho of Pugala, and the 

 Khan of Nagora. This event is not even mentioned in the 

 Khyata of Dayala Dasa, but is described in other older works, 

 like the Chandas of rava Jeta Si mentioned above, and the Khyata 

 of MS. 30, of Descr. Cat. of. Bar. and Hist. MSS., Sect, i, pt. ii. 

 Tt seems that the chiefs of Jodhpur and Jesalmer, together 

 with the Khan of Nagora, made a coalition against Viko and 

 invaded his territory. The date is not given in any of the 

 works mentioned above, but we can safely circumscribe it 

 between Samvat 1545— the year of the accession of rava 

 Satala and of the founding of Rikaner— , and Samvat 1548, 



—the year of the battle of Kosano, in which Satala lost his life. 

 Apparently, rava Sekho of Pugala was unwilling to fight against 

 his son-in-law, but was forced to do so by the ravaja of 

 Jesalmer, to whom Pugala was in a state of more or less nomi- 

 nal subordination in those times. Whatever momentary success 

 the four allies may have scored on rava Viko at* first, certain 

 it is that thev were unable to reduce him, and at last were 

 forced to withdraw with scorn, " rubbing their hands," as the 

 author of the Jeta SI m Chmida says. 1 It is significant that 

 most of the Jodhpur chronicles are absolutely silent about the 



dventure. , , 



In the song, the four enemies are compared to four ele- 

 phants, that come into the forest of Jagalu to graze. Hut 

 here thev find Viko, a terrible lion, who confronts them roaring 

 his throat. Frightened, they turn back, relishing instead ot 

 i-'rass, the points of the arrows of their powerful toe. 



The song is anonymous. The manuscripts in which it has 



been preserved, ar, the following: i-Dmr. 0*4 Bn^and 

 His'. MSS., Sect, i, pt. ii, No. 30, p. lla-b, b- 

 pt. i, No. 21, p. 666. 



Ditto. Sect. ii. 



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