The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s5.88

v2.c30.s5.88

It records that the Brāhmaṇ Delhaṇa, minister of No. 4 above, carried out the repairs of the temple (of Pāṭa-nārāyaṇa) during the years (V.) S. 1343-1344 (*c.* 1286-87 A.D.). The inscription was engraved by Gāṅgadeva. Line 39 contains the date (V.) S. 1344.¹ The inscription tells us that Pratāpasiṁha defeated Jaitrakarṇa and regained Candrāvatī. It has been suggested that this Jaitrakarṇa is probably the Guhila Jaitrasiṁha, the grandson of Mathanasiṁha and son of Padmasiṁha.² The details of the history of Pratāpasiṁha’s successors are not very clear. But Ojha refers to a stone-inscription in the Brahmāṇa-svāmī (Sun) temple at the village of Varman in Sirohi, dated in V.S. 1356 (*c.* 1299 A.D.) in the reign of *Mahārājakula* Vikrama-siṁha,³ whom he accepts as the successor of Pratāpasiṁha, and the last of the Paramāras of Abu.⁴ An Abu inscription dated in V. S. 1377 (A.D. 1321) informs us that the Cāhamāna *Mahārājakula* Luntigadeva conquered and ruled over Candrāvatī and Arbuda.⁵ Another Abu inscription, dated in V.S. 1387 records repairs of a well by the *Guhilaputra* Mokala when Teja-siṁha was ruling at Candrāvatī.⁶ This Tejasiṁha has been identified as the nephew of Luntiga and one of the ancestors of the Cāhamāna family who still hold Sirohi. He appears to be identical with the *Devḍā* (Deora) Tejasiṁha (V. S. 1387-93 = *c.* 1330-1335 A.D.), a descendant of Kīrtipāla, who founded the *Sonigāṟā* branch of the Cāhamānas at Jalor. Kīrtipāla, was a brother of the Nadol Cāhamāna Kelhaṇa (V. S. 1221-39 = *c.* 1164-1182 A.D.).⁷ It is therefore certain that between the years V.S. 1344 and 1387 (*c.* 1277 and 1320 A.D.) the Paramāras were ousted from Abu by the Cāhamānas.⁸