[25] Káthavate’s Kírtikaumudí, xviii.–xix. [↑]

[26] Rás Málá, 202. [↑]

[27] Ind. Ant. VI. 191. The word for Mewáḍ is Medapáta the Med or Mher land. [↑]

[28] The Karnáta king would probably be Someśvara (a.d. 1252) or his son Narasiṃha III. (a.d. 1254) of the Hoysala Ballálas of Dvárasamudra. Fleet’s Kánarese Dynasties, 64, 69. [↑]

[29] These details are mentioned in a grant of land in Mándal in Ahmadábád to Bráhmans to fill a drinking fountain, repair temples, and supply offerings. Ind. Ant. VI. 210–213. [↑]

[30] Rás Málá (New Ed.), 212. A Jaina Pattávali or succession list of High-priests notices that the famine lasted for three years from Saṃvat 1315 (a.d. 1259). The text may be translated as follows: Vikrama Saṃvat 1315, three years’ famine the king (being) Vísaladeva. Bhandarkar’s Search for Sanskrit Manuscripts for 1883–84, 15, 323. [↑]

[31] See Ep. Ind. I. [↑]

[32] The inscription was first noticed by Colonel Tod: Rajasthán, I. 705: Western India, 506. [↑]

[33] This is not Sultán Rukn-ud-dín of the slave kings, who ruled from a.d. 1234 to a.d. 1235. Elliot and Dowson, II. [↑]

[34] All four dates tally. The middle of a.d. 1264 (Saṃvat 1320) falls in Hijra 662. As the Valabhi era begins in a.d. 318–319 and the Siṃha era in a.d. 1113, 945 of Valabhi and 151 of Siṃha tally with a.d. 1264. [↑]