[5] The Choháns of Ajmir were also known as the rulers of Śákambharí, the Sámbhar lake in Rájputána on the borders of Jaipur and Jodhpur. The corrected edition of the Harsha inscription published by Prof. Kielhorn in Epigraphia Indica II. 116ff. shows that their first historical king was Gúvaka, who reigned some time in the first half of the ninth century (c. 820 a.d.) The Choháns are still very numerous in the neighbourhood of the Sewálik hills, especially in the districts of Ambálá and Karnál. Compare Ibbetson’s Panjáb Census for 1881. [↑]
[6] It appears from the grant of Śaka 972 published by Mr. Dhruva in Ind. Ant. XII. 196 and from the Surat grant of Kírttirája dated Śaka 940, that this Bárappa was the founder of a dynasty who ruled Láṭa or South Gujarát as under-kings of the Dakhan Chálukyas until at least a.d. 1050. Bárappa was, as his name shows, a Southerner from the Kánarese country, but his descendants spell the family name Chaulukya in the same way as the dynasty of Aṇahilaváḍa. [↑]
[7] Dr. Bühler (Ind. Ant. XII. 123) sees a reference to this retirement in Múlarája’s grant of Saṃvat 1043. [↑]
[8] Apparently a Sanskrit form of Bárappa. [↑]
[9] Broach according to the commentator. [↑]
[10] The Sukṛitasankírtana mentions this defeat of Bárappa who is said to be a general of the Kanyákubja or Kanoj king. The Prabandhachintámaṇi (Múlarájaprabandha) also mentions the invasion and slaughter of Bárappa; but there is no reference to it in the grant of Bárappa’s descendant Trilochanapála (Ind. Ant. XII. 196ff.) [↑]
[12] As Mr. Forbes rightly observed Graharipu the Planet-seizer is a made-up title based on the resemblance of the planet-seizer’s name Ráhu to Rá the title of the Chúḍásamás of Junágaḍh. The personal name of the chief is not given and the list of the Junágaḍh Chúḍásamás is too incomplete to allow of identification. [↑]
[13] The mention of her name and of the language in which she wrote suggest something remarkable in the race and position of queen Nílí. [↑]