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culture." [With this determination] — sayeth Goro — rava Luna 

 Karana. the son of Vikrama, 1 resorted on this earth to the sanc- 

 tuary of the sword, and acquired renown in the world, and 

 fought a [memorable] battle over the orb of the earth. 



2. "[Cursed be Vibhlsana ! For he] went to join Rama, 

 and set [his covetous] mind on Lanka, and then, coaxed by the 

 Raghava, 2 did whatever he told [him to do], and saving his 

 own life, [helped to] destroy millions of raksasas, [till at last] 

 he betrayed the secret of the bee [in which the stamina of the 

 life of Ravana lay concealed], and completed the ultimate defeat 

 [of his brother]." — Sayeth Goro : in the family of the monarch 

 Jodho, Rajadhara, the son of Vikrama, says : " At the sight 

 of the enemv army. I do not fear. I will never do like Vibhl- 



na." 



3. " I will behave as Kama 8 behaved, or as ravata Jajo 41 

 behaved. If at seeing the [impending] battle, I seek [safety] in 

 the jungle, then rava Jodho and Rina Mala 5 will be ashamed [of 

 me]. Nobody is immortal in this world, and nothing goes with 

 [him, who departs from this life, but] the liberality, the valour, 

 the truthfulness, and the good behaviour, these are the compa- 

 nions at the end [of one's life]." In the Kamandhaja family, 

 sayeth Goro —all men are veritably called irreprehensible. [In 

 this spirit], rava Rajadhara fought the battle, and an unani- 

 mous voice [of praise] remained [after him. to last through] all 

 the ages. 



Rava Luna Karana was succeeded by his son Jeta Si, who 

 held in his hands the reins of Bikaner from Samvat 1583 to 

 1598. Fortunate like his father in life, he was similarly un- 

 fortunate in death, for he also fell in battle, in a vain 

 attempt to oppose the invading forces of Mala De, his ambi- 

 tious and unscrupulous neighbour of Jodhpur. Nothing can be 

 more conspicuous than Mala De's ingratitude, when one knows 

 that it was Jeta Si's help that enabled Mala De's father, Gago- 

 to defeat his rival Sekho, who strongly supported by the Khan 

 f Nagora, contested him the succe ion to the "cadi" of 

 Jodhpur. From both the Bikaner and the Jodhpur chronicles, 

 it appears that Jeta Si had a ven prominent part in the defeat 

 of Sekho and his Muhammadan ally. The Icavitta which I 

 give below, commemorates an encounter between Jeta Si and a 

 Juhammadan army, which took place at Jakhanivo— a village 

 on the Bikaner and Nagora border— the 1 3th d f of the dark 



J Yiko- 2 Rama. 



6 -Lhe famous hero of the MahSbharata. 



- -"«> UUUUU9 nero ot the Mahabharata. 

 A valiant Rajput chief, who on one occasion when the village where 

 he was temporarily staying as a guest, was assailed by a strong enemy 

 orce though he would have been justified in leaving the place and saving 

 h.mself preferred to remain and die sword in hand 



6 Name of the father of rava Jodho. 



