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ment as Ywoa Raja, or young king. In 1209 he reigned alone, and it is not 

 impossible that he continued to reign sometime after 1231, so that the joint 

 reigns of himself and his brother may have afforded some foundation for the 

 length of the supposed reign of Lagam Raya. In the list of Guzerat prin- 

 ces consulted by Colonel Wilford, he found but one prince corresponding 

 to Mttla, called Balumula, who was succeeded by Bhala Bhima Deo, and 

 this last, he considers to have furnished Abulfazl with his Beil Deo and 

 BinM. It seems very possible, therefore, that instead of the four princes of 

 the Ayin Akberi, we should have but two, Mt^la, named Lakshmana, or VfRA 

 and Bhima Deva. There must, however, have been a second prince of the 

 latter denomination, or his reign must have extended much beyond the limit 

 of the inscriptions, and to a period of very improbable duration, if we are to 

 place any trust in the chronology of Abulfazl. It cannot be very far wrong, 

 from the accuracy with which it approximates to the date of a succeeding 

 prince. 



We have another prince in the list of apparently paramount sovereigns, 

 in a different inscri-ption, and at an interval, which implies some intermediate 

 prince or princes, Saranga Deva, in whose reign an edict is promulgated by 

 Visala Deva, governor of Chandrdvati dated S. 1350 (a. d. 1294). There is 

 also an apparent allusion to a person named Eerena, who, with others, was in 

 oppositiojn to the sovereign, but the passage is incorrectly transcribed : audits 

 exact purport cannot be made cot. Sarang Deo and Kurran, are the two 

 last Hindu princes in AbulfazVs list, and reigned from a. d. 1292 to 1320. 

 It was in the reign of the latter, that the kingdom fell a prey to Mohammedan 

 invaders. 



The Chauluhya House appears, in these inscriptions, to have been divided 

 into several collateral branches, and, besides the main line, the sovereigns of 

 Guzerat, we have two subsidiary dynasties. One of these is here distinguished 



