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a different family succeeded, named Bird Mool, who reigned twelve years; 

 to him succeeded Bildeo, who reigned thirty-four, and he was succeeded by 

 Bhima, who reigned forty-two years. Computing his series of years, from 

 the deposition of Jamund, in A. D. 1025, Lakhmul must have reigned from 

 A. D. 1186 to lig-i, and Bhima from a. d. 12iO to 1282. The Bhima of his 

 list, can scarcely be that of the inscriptions, therefore, by whom the whole 

 of the interval, during which he states Bird Mool and Beildeo to have 

 reigned, must have been occupied, agreeably to the dates of those records. 



Again, we find from other authorities, that, instead of the limited reign 

 assigned by Abulfazl to Lakh Mul, there is reason to extend it very con- 

 siderably, and the Lagam Rata of Mirkhond, whose account is translated 

 by D'Herbelot, and who is clearly the same with Lakh Mul, is said to have 

 reigned eighty years, until attacked and deposed by Mohammed Khilji, 

 which Colonel Wilford supposes might have happened about a. d. 1209c 

 It is very doubtful, however, if Mohammed KniLjf ever invaded Guzerat^ 

 although Mohammed Ghori and Kutteb ad Din led their armies against the 

 province at periods which are the source of some further perplexity. 



Mohammed Ghori is said to have been defeated in a. d. 1178, by BnfMA 

 Deva, the King of Guzerat, which carries that prince, therefore, further back 

 than his predecessor, Mula, in AbuIfazPs chronology. Kutteb was encountered 

 at various dates between 1193 and 1202, which, according to Mirkhond, would 

 fall also in the reign of MtJLA, by the same prince, or Bhima Deva, whose 

 reign, from the joint testimony of the different records, is thus made to extend 

 from 1178 to 1231, or 47 years, including the period assigned by Abulfazl to 

 five princes, or all those from Jay Sinh to the Bhima, who succeeded Beil Deo. 



It is not unlikely thatBnfMA, when first opposed to the Mohammedans, was 

 only his brother's general, or he might have been associated in the govern- 



