The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c34.s1.200

v2.c34.s1.200

(1) *Chirwa stone-inscription.*—Incised on the outside of the door of the temple of Viṣṇu at the village of Chirwā, about 10 miles north of Udaipur and 2 miles east of Nagda. It contains 51 Sanskrit verses, opening with *Om namaḥ Śrī-Mahādevāya* and verses in praise of Yogarājeśvara (Śiva), and then tracing the genealogy of Samarasimha from Padmasimha. The latter was born many years after Bappa of the *Guhilāṅgaja-vaṁśa*. The inscription then gives the genealogy and history of the various members of a family who claimed to belong to the Tāntaraḍa family (*jātas-Tāṁtaraḍa-jñātau*) who served in various capacities in the Guhila administration from the time of Mathanasimha onwards. The object of the inscription is to record that in the village of Cīrakūpa,⁴ near Nāgahrada,⁵ Yogarāja, the *talāra* of Padmasimha in the city of Nāgadraha,⁶ raised a temple to (Śiva) Yogarājeśvara and his consort Yogarājeśvarī. Before this Uddharaṇa had also erected a temple in the same place to (Viṣṇu) Uddharaṇasvāmin. Madana, grandson of Yogarāja, and his mother Hirū granted two fields situated at the back of the Kālebāya lake and to the north of Citrakūṭa-*nagara-durga*, to the temples after having divided them into two equal parts. The *praśasti* was composed by Ratnaprabha Sūri. It is dated in (V.)S. 1330 (*c.* 1273 A.D.).¹