Ancient Cities.
Some names in this list may be unimportant, but if two, or even one, should be the means of eliciting some knowledge of the past, the record will not be useless.
Phulra and Marot have still some importance: the first is very ancient, and enumerated amongst the ‘Nau-koti Maru-ki,’ in the earliest periods of Pramara (vulg. Panwar) dominion. I have no doubt that inscriptions in the ornamental nail-headed character belonging to the Jains will be found here, having obtained one from Lodorva in the desert, which has been a ruin for nine centuries. Phulra was the residence of Lakha Phulani, a name well known to those versed in the old traditions of the desert. He was cotemporary with Siddh Rae of Anhilwara, and Udayaditya of Dhar [216].
[1]. [Bhatner, Bhatti-nagara, ‘town of the Bhattis,’ the Po-to-lu-lo or Bhatosthala of the Buddhist pilgrims (Cunningham, Ancient Geography, 147; ASR, xxiii. (1887), 4 f.).]
[2]. [Kutbu-d-dīn [=I]bak (A.D. 1206-10). The leader of the Hindu revolt was Jatwān, who was defeated and slain on the borders of Bāgar (‘the land of the Bāgri, or warriors,’ or according to others, from bāgar, ‘a thorn hedge’), a name still applied to a tract in the Sirsa and Hissār Districts of the Panjāb (Cunningham, Ancient Geography, 247; IGI, xiii. 149 f.). For the revolt see Tabaqāt-i-Nasiri, trans. Raverty, 516 f.; Elliot-Dowson ii. 217 ff.; Ferishta i. 191 f., who calls the leader Jīwan Rāī, general of the forces of Nahrwāla in Gujarāt.]
[3]. [Sultān Razīyah (A.D. 1236-40) was supported in her attack on Delhi by a force of Gakkhars and Jats (Ferishta i. 221).]
[4]. I presented to Mr. Marsden a unique coin of this ill-fated queen.
[5]. [For Timūr’s attack on Bhatner and on the Jats see Elliot-Dowson iii. 420 ff., 487 ff., 428 f., 492 f.]
[6]. In S. 1857 (A.D. 1801) the celebrated George Thomas, for the sum of three lakhs, put the Bhattis into the temporary possession of Bhatner; but the succeeding year it was again taken from them by the Rathors.