400 Vestiges of the Kings of Gwalior. [No. 4, 



Samvat 1034 = A. C. 977. The record (No. 6 of Col. Cunningham's 

 plates) does not allude to the race of the sovereign, hut we have that in- 

 formation in some detail in an inscription on an adjoining Jain temple. 

 (Appendix, No. 7.) It is inscribed on two large slabs measuring 5' — 2'' 

 by V — 7" and 5' — 6'' by 1' — 6" respectively, the number of lines being 

 21 on each. Col. Cunningham has not included this record in his plates, 

 but he has favoured me with a facsimile of it. I have also a Thent 

 Hindvi translation of it, which was prepared for the late Major Mark- 

 ham Kittoe. The original document is in Sanskrita, and comprises 110 

 stanzas in various metres, the characters being intermediate between 

 the Kutila and the modern Devanagari. It opens with a salutation 

 to Padmanatha and records the dedication of a temple to that divi- 

 nity by a Maharaja Mahipala in the Samvat year 1149 = A. C. 1092. 

 The document itself was composed or rather completed, for the whole 

 of it could not be composed, on the 5th of the wane in the month of 

 As'wina, 1150 = A. C. 1093. The composer of the deed was one 

 Manikantha of the Bharadwaja gotra, and its writer Digambararka. 

 Its engraving needed the services of three artists, Padma son of 

 Pevaswami, Sinhavaja and Mahula. 



The genealogy of the Raja begins with one Kaehchhapaghata, a 

 mighty sovereign " who was revered by innumerable princes," but of 

 whose race and dominion, nothing seems to be known. Judging from 

 his name " the destroyer" (ghata) of the " Kachchhapa,"* I imagine he 

 was of Puar descendant and of the solar race. Col. Wilford in his essay 

 on Vikramaditya and Salivahanaf states that Gwalior, ancient Gopa- 

 giri, passed from the Palas to the Puars, but he gives us no clue to the 

 whereabouts of his authorities. According to Col. TodJ the descendants 

 of Kusha son of Rama first settled at Photas, whence after a time they 

 spread under the name of Kachvahas or Kachchhapas to the West and 

 the South. To the west they went as far as Amber where they establish- 

 ed a flourishing principality, and checked the spread of their kinsmen, 

 the descendants of Lava and the 36 Agnikula Rajputs. In their pro- 

 gress to the west, they had evidently taken Gwalior ; for the 85 Palas 



* In an inscription dated 1177, mention is made of a prince of Nalapura 

 named Virasirlha Deva, who was a " sun to the lilies in the lake of the happy 

 Kachchhapaghata lineage," and therefore of the race of the sovereign here 

 named ; the genealogy, however, not being given, it is difficult to ascertain the exact 

 relationship he bore. Journal American Oriental Society, Vol. VI. p. 545. 



f Asiatic Researches, Vol. IX. p. 513. 



% Eajasthan, Vol. I. p. 336. 



