The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s4.57

v2.c32.s4.57

Vigraharāja was succeeded by his younger brother Durlabharāja of whom nothing more was known than the name of his minister, Mādhava, which is supplied by the *Pṛthvīrāja-vijaya*, until the discovery of the *Kinsariya stone-inscription of Cacca* threw some welcome light on his reign. This was found ‘in a temple dedicated to the goddess Kevāy mātā and situated on the summit of a hill in the vicinity of a village named Kinsariyā, 4 miles north of Parbatsar, the principal town of the district of the same name in the Jodhpur State. It is incised on a stone fixed in the wall of the *Sabhāmaṇḍapa.*' It contains 23 lines of somewhat damaged writing. The first verse has peeled off. In the next four verses it invokes Kātyāyaṇī, Kālī, and another deity (name lost). Verse 6 praises the Cāhamāna race. Then it gives the names of Vākpātirāja, Siṁharāja, and Durlabharāja. The latter, we are told, earned the epithet *Durlanghya-meru*, as none could transgress his orders. Verse 12 'represents him as having conquered the country called Āsośittana.'¹ Next is given the following genealogy of a line of feudatory princes who traced their descent to the sage Dadhīci and were hence known as Dadhīcika (also Dahiyaka).²