The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c34.s5.12

v2.c34.s5.12

As mentioned above this line of chiefs seems to have always remained feudatory to the main line of Chitor. Lakṣmaṇasiṃha Lakṣmasiṃha and his son Arisiṃha took their share in the defence of Chitor against ‘Alā ud-Dīn and were killed in 1303 A. D. The Kumbhalgadh inscription (V.S. 1517-A.D. 1460) of Kumbhakarṇa seems to indicate that Lakṣmaṇasiṃha after the surrender² of Ratnasiṃha to ‘Alā ud-Dīn was raised to the throne of Mewar and so he and his son Arisiṃha both reigned for very brief periods before their deaths. Tradition records that Lakṣmaṇasiṃha died along with seven of his sons in trying to maintain the defence of Chitor (EI, Vol. XXI, p. 281, V. 180). It was his grandson (?) Hammīra who restored Guhila power in Mewar by capturing the fort of Chitor from Jesā or Jayasiṃha. Jesā was the son of the Jalor Cāhamāna Māladeva who was placed in charge of the fort by ‘Alā ud-Dīn after the administration of Khiẓr Khān. According to Muhanoṭa Naiṇsī the Cāhamāna Māladeva ruled at Chitor for 7 years.³ The capture of Chitor by Hammīra seems to have happened some time after the reign of Ghiyāth ud-Dīn Tughluq (c. 1320-25), for whose reign we have a Persian inscription in Chitor.⁴