Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c6.235

c6.235

The verses seem to describe the fort of Rewa at the foot of which the city lay washed by a river. There ruled a line of chiefs of whom three names are given in succession viz. Surava, Virajit, and Jāṭalendra (=Jatīvā), the last of whom was the patron of the author who was, in fact, the priest of the royal patron. The author’s name, twice stated as Mesa-Karṇa, probably the dignified form of the vulgarised Khem Karan, a name very common in the North and Rajputana.