664 



Inscription taken from a Baolee at Bussimtgurh at the foot of the Southern range 

 of Hills running parallel to Mount Ahoo. By T. S. Burt, F. R. S. Captain, 

 Bengal Engineers. 



The indefatigable research, and unabated zeal of Capt. Burt, has put me 

 in possession in this Inscription from Bussuntgurh, of some new and curi- 

 ous information regarding the early dynasties of the Ranas of Mewar. 

 Descended, as my readers need not be reminded, from the Balhara 

 monarchs of Saurashtra (Surat and Guzerat,) the family destined to fix its 

 seat of power at Chitore and Odeypore, sojourned for two hundred years 

 in the Bhauder Desert after the destruction of that monarchy, until (Useful 

 Tables, p. 109) " Baph, or Bappa conquered Chitore, and founded a new 

 dynasty in a. d. 727." The list of titular potentates who headed the 

 Gehlote or Jesodia tribe during the above period, from a. d. 524, when the 

 Parthians destroyed the capital Balabhi in Sourashtra, to the date above 

 noted, A. D. 727, is given by Tod from the A'spur marble (Rajasthan, vol. — 

 p. — ,) and he traces the succession of their princes from the Aitpur In- 

 scription, after their conquest of Chitore in the following order : — 



750. 



967. 



Wilson's List. 



Tod's List, 



Guhila, 



. 1. Sri Gohadit. 



Bhoja, 



. 2. Bhoja (Bhagaditya.) 





3. Mahendra. 





4. Naga (Nagaditya.) 





5. Jyela. 





6. Aprajit. 





7. Mahendra. 



Kalabhoja, 



.. 8. Kalabhoja. 



Bhartribhata, ., 



.. 9. Khoman (invasion of Chitore from Ca- 





bul, a. d. 812.) 



Samahagika, ., 



Mangal, expelled by chiefs. 



Khuman, ... . 



..10. Bhirtripad, (founded thirteen principali- 





ties for his sons in Malwa and Gu- 





zerat.) 





11. Singhji, whose Ranee Lukshmi bore 



Allata, ... . 



,.12. Sri Allat, whose daughter Haria Devi 





was grand-mother of 



Naravahana, 



... 13. Nirvahana. 





14. Salvahana. 



Saktivarma, . 



... 15. Saktikumar, 967 or 1,068? 



