Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s1.t1.100

v3.c42.s1.t1.100

The inscription commences and ends with the same date, namely, 15th of the month Baisakh, S. 1220. If correctly copied, it can have no reference to Bisaldeo, excepting as the ancestor of Prativa Chahumana tilaka Sakambhari bhupati; or ‘ Prithiraja Chauhan, the anointed of Sambhar, Lord of the earth,’ who ruled at Delhi in S. 1220, and was slain in S. 1249, retaining the ancient epithet of ‘ Lord of Sambhar,’ one of the early seats of their power.³ The second stanza, however, tells us we must distrust the first of the two dates, and read 1120 (instead of 1220), when Visaladeva “ exterminated the barbarians ” from Aryavarta. The numerals 1 and 2 in Sanskrit are easily mistaken. If, however, it is decidedly 1220, then the whole inscription belongs to Prativa Chahumana, between whom and Visala no less than six princes intervene,¹ and the opening is merely to introduce Prithiraja’s lineage, in which the sculptor has foisted in the date.