Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.90

v2.c28.90

Asvatthāma.—One of the chronicles asserts that it was Asvatthama, the successor of Siahji, who conquered “ the land of Kher ” from the Gohils. By the same species of treachery by which his father attained Pali, he lent his aid to establish his brother Soning in Idar. This small principality, on the frontiers of Gujarat, then appertained, as did Mewa, to the Dabhi race; and it was during the matam, or period of mourning for one of its princes, that the young Rathor chose to obtain a new settlement. His descendants are distinguished as the Hathundia¹ Rathors. The third brother, Aja, carried his forays as far as the extremity of the Saurashtra peninsula, where he decapitated Bikamsi, the Chawara chieftain of Okhamandala,² and established himself. From this act his branch became known as the ‘Vadhel’;³ and the Vadhels are still in considerable number in that furthest track of ancient Hinduism called the “World’s End.”