AT AED. 



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volume of the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society. The succession 

 of the Princes, as given in the inscriptions, and by Abulfazl, very exactly 

 corresponds, and in general agrees with that of a list quoted and commented 

 on by the late Col. Wilford, (As. R. IX. 178) : a few of the instances are 

 confirmed by Major Tod. 



Inscriptions 



Ay. Ak. 



Col. Wilford. 



Major Tod. 



Mula Raja 



Mool Raj 



Mula 





Chdmund 



Jamand 



Vallabha 



Chaond deposed A. D. 101 L 



Vallabha 



Beyser 



Durlabha 





Durlabha 



Durleb 



Bhima 



Durlabh abdicated A. D. 1021 



Bhima 



Bhim 



Visala or 





Kaladeva 



Kurrun 



Kera Deva 





Siddha Raja 



Sudh Raj 



Siddha Raja 



Siddha Raya from A. D. 1091 1 



Kumara Pala 



Kunwar 



Kumara Pala 





Ajaya Pala 



Ajee Pal 



Aja Pala 





Mula 



Lakhmool 



Luk Mula 





Bhima 





Bhala Bhima Deva A. D. 1209 



The inscriptions present no dates for the earlier princes, but the last, 

 Bhima, is placed in Samvat 1265 (a. d. 1209), and 1287 (a. d. 1231,) which 

 correspond well enough with Major Tod's dates, allowing an interval of eighty- 

 six years for the last four reigns, from S. 1201, (a. d. 1145,) to S. 1287 (a. d. 

 1231). 



Colonel Wilkes, quoting the authority of the manuscripts of the late 

 Colonel Mackenzie, states, that the Chaulukija dynasty was one of very high 

 antiquity. This appears to be more than doubtful. We may infer, from the 

 inscription, that Mula Raja was the first of this family, and, according to 

 Abulfazl, he went from Delhi about fifty years before the invasion of Mahmud 

 of Ghizni, to seek his fortunes in the west of India. His being the first of 

 the family, is also inferrable from a passage in the Mahdvira Cheriira, of the 



