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and when ho laid them aside, he was bound to suspend them at the saint’s 
dargali still existing six miles from Achrol. For two years he wears a blue 
tunic and cap, and for life abstains from hog’s llesh and all meat in which 
the blood remains. Shaikh J i, by conquest from his neighbours, consolidated 
under his own sway 300 villages, in complete independence of the parent 
state of Amber : and they so continued till the time of Sawai Jay Sinha, the 
founder of Jaypur. Shaikh Ji’s lioir Haemal had three sons, Non-karan, 
Raesil and Gopal. By the advice of Devi Das, a shrewd minister, who had 
been dismissed by Non-Karan, Raesil proceeded to Dihli with a following 
of 20 horse men, and so distinguished himself in the repulse of an Afghan 
invasion, that Akbar bestowed upon him the title of Darbari with a grant of 
land and the important command of 1,250 horse. Khandela and Udaypur, 
then called Kasumbi, which ho conquered from the Narbhans, a branch of 
the Cliauhans, after contracting a marriage with the daughter of the prince 
of that race, because the principal cities of the Shaikhawat confederation . 
He accompanied his liege lord, Raja Man Sinha of Amber against the Mewrr 
Rana Pratdp, and further distinguished himself in the expedition to Kabul. 
The date of his death is not known.* The temple, of which he is the 
reputed founder, corresponds very closely both in style and dimensions with 
that of Madan Mohan already described ; and has a simi l ar chapel attached 
to the south side of the sacrarium. It is, however, in a far more ruinous 
condition : the nave has entirely disappeared ; the three towers have been 
levelled with the roof ; and the entrance gateway of tho court-yard is 
tottering to its fall. The special feature of the building is a curious arcade 
of three bracket arches, serving apparently no construetural purpose, but 
merely added as an ornamental screen to tho bare soutli wall. The choir- 
arch is also of handsome design, elaborately decorated with arabesque 
sculptures ; but it is partly concealed from view by mean sheds which have 
been built up against it, while the interior is used as a stable and the north 
side is blocked by the modern temple. The votive offerings here made are 
estimated at Rs. 3,000 a year, in addition to which there is an endowment 
yielding an annual income of Rs. 1,200. 
Tho temple of Jugal Kislior, the last of the old series, stands at the 
lower end of tho town near the Kesi Ghat. Its construction is referred to 
the year Sambat 1GS4, i. e. 1027 A. D., in the reign of Jahangir, and the 
founder’s name is preserved as Non-Karan. He is said to have been a 
Chauhdn Thakur ; but it is not improbable that he was the elder brother of 
Raesil, who built the temple of Gopinath. The choir, which is slightly 
larger than in the other examples, being 25 feet square, has the principal 
entrance, as usual, at the east end ; but is peculiar in having also, both north 
Hie above particulars are extracted from Tod’s Kajastkan and Professor 
Bloohmaim’s don i Akbari. 
