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described in a preceding part of the record. Rayera Siiha, the sixth 
in* descent from Gobinda, the founder of the family from Chandail, 
was probably his father. But the family panegyrist, after naming 
Bhopa the daughter of Radyera, celebrates the intimacy of the two 
brothers Balha and Devadasa without saying a word as to their descent. 
A Devagana occurs as the composer of the record and he is said to 
be the son of Ratna Sifha, but whether that Ratna Sifha was the 
son of Mame or a different person, does not appear; probably he 
was different, as otherwise the recital of three generations after the 
composer would be scarcely called for; and it would be difficult to 
account for the poet being, in sad breach of Hindu manners, so very 
particular as to who was the most favourite wife of his own gon, and an 
octogenarian contemporary of his great-grandson writing erotic poetry. 
Kumarapala, son of Avanipéla is said to have written the eulogium 
but whether on paper at the dictation of Devagana, or on the stone 
for the engraver, the record makes no mention. 
Of the family described, nothing is known for certain. They were 
probably influential residents of Berar, (ancient Bidarbha,) which was 
once a large and flourishing kingdom, but of the rulers of which we 
have now no record. The panegyrist no where assigns to them any 
royal epithet, and their history therefore can be of no interest to the 
Indian antiquarian. The inscription, however, is of use as supplying 
three names in the annals of Chedi, and as suggesting the fact of 
Nagpur and the country around it, having been, in the year of Samvat 
1207 = A. D. 1150 and for a time before it, subject to the princes 
of Chedi; for it is not likely that the writer of the inscription should 
select the chiefs of that principality for his eulogium, if he had any 
sovereign of Nagpur or Bidarbha at the time, to make the theme of 
his praise. The three princes of Chedi named, are Jajalla, Ratna 
Pala and Prithvi Deva, the last of whom was a contemporary of 
Govinda, the seventh ancestor of the dedicator of the temple, who 
lived in A. C. 1150... 
Transcript of an Inscription from Kajraha. 
Gay {one waa | faaqgauaat a feaatu: |ajs (1) 
aqu(Qearaqa: qaqa | @aasaifaqaawiaasa 
* Govinda ; 2, Mame ; 3, Ratna Sifha; 4,—? had two wives Jénha and Prathé : 
5, Jagat Sifiha; 6, Rayara Siiha; 7, Balha and his brother Devadésa alias (?) 
Devagana. 
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