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The next name of the Tomaras which we have to notice is that of 

 Bilanga Deva. It occurs in No. 15 of Colonel Cunningham's plates (hi) 

 which hears date the 5th of the waxing moon inMagha, Samvat 1467 = 

 A. C. 1410. Tieffenthaler has a Viramdew, hut he was three generations 

 removed from Dungara. It is more prohahly therefore the same with 

 his Barsingdew, who had a long reign of 75 years and was followed by 

 Doungar Sen, for we find thirty years after Bilanga a Dungarendra Deva 

 of whose reign there are three different inscriptions in Col. Cunning- 

 ham's collection, dated respectively on Sunday the full moon, Sunday 

 the 9th of the waxing moon, and Friday the 7th of the waxing moon, 

 in Vais'akha, Samvat 1497 = 1440 A. C. (Figs. 16, 17 and 18). The 

 language used in these monuments is an obsolete patois unintelligi- 

 ble to me. The last of them records the dedication of a Jain figure by 

 Kfila a high priest of the congregation of Adijina. Two of the records 

 bear the name of the Raja who seems to have enjoyed a long and pros- 

 perous reign. He is described as " the supreme lord of great kings" 

 in an inscription on the foot of a figure of Mahavira* which is 

 date the 8th of the waxing moon in the month of Magha, Samvat 

 1510 = 1453 A. C. His name likewise appears on a pillar of victory 

 at Narwar which was erected by one of his descendants Syam Shahi 

 (Plate IV.), as also in the Rohtas inscription on the Kothoutiya 

 gate of the old fort at that place. f The Narwar Pillar records 

 the names of probably thirteen princes, but they are not all intelligi- 

 ble, owing partly to efacement of the engraving and partly to the 

 document being in an obscure patois, a mixture of Sanskrita and 

 obsolete Hindvi. They correspond, however, so closely with the names 

 on the Rohtas monument, that I have no hesitation in taking them 

 to refer to the same dynasty, and of correcting the reading of one by 

 the other. The first name on the pillar is Vira Siiiha, (I.) which occurs 

 likewise at Rohtas. The second name on the pillar is illegible, and in 

 its place at Rohtas we have Uddharana, (II.) who is followed in both 

 records by Ganapati Deva (III.) whose successor according to the 

 Rohtas record was Hungara Siiiha (IV.) and according to the Narwar 

 pillar Dungara Siiiha, both evidently identical with the Dungarendra 

 of the inscriptions 17, 18 and 19 ; the difference in the initial being due 



* In an inscription in the collection of the late Major Eittoe, No. 34, vide 

 Appendix. No. 19. 



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