हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

16 borne by the Chohân princes his issue : slain by the Mosque invaders under Abu'l Aâs).⁹ Harsharâja or Harihara Râi (defeated Naziru'd-dîn [qu. Subakte- gin ?], thence styled 'Sulṭângrâha'). Bîr Bîllandeva, (Balianga Râi or Dharmagachha; slain defending Ajmer against Mahmud of Ghazni). Bisaldeva (classically Vîśaladêva); his period from various inscriptions, S. 1066 to S. 1130. Saraṅgadêva, his son (died in nonage). Âna Deva (constructed the Ânâ Sâgar at Ajmer, which still bears his name), his sons— Jayapâla or Jayasiṁha (A.D. 977) father of— Hursapâl (Hispâl of Ferishtah). Ajaya Deva or Anandeva, son of Jayapâla (A.D. 1000); Bijyadeva and Udayadeva were his brothers. Someśvara, son of Ajaya Deva, married Rukâbâi, the daughter of Anangapâla of Dehli. His brothers were Kanharâi and Jaitrasiṁha, Goelwâl Kanharâi's son Îśvaradâs turned Muhammadan. Pṛithvî Râja (A.D. 1176), son of Someśvara, obtained Dehli; slain by Shahâbu'd-dîn, S. 1249, A.D. 1193. Reṇasî (A.D. 1192), son of Pṛithvirâja, slain in the sack of Dehli. Vijayarâja, son of Châhaḍadeva, the second son of Someśvara (adopted successor to Pṛithvirâja; his name is on the pillar at Dehli). Lâkhansî, son of Vijayarâja, had twenty-one sons; seven of whom were legitimate, the others illegitimate, and founders of mixed tribes. From Lakhansî there were twenty-six generations to Nonad Siṁha, the chief of Nîmrânâ (in Col. Tod's time), the nearest lineal descendant of Ajayapâla and Pṛithvirâja). As observed before, up to the time of Pṛithvirâja, the last great Chohân, the poem is made up mostly of poetical bombast, in which, at intervals, a grain of historical matter may be ⁹ Tod, Raj. vol. II. p. 444. Ten more names are given in Bombay Govern- ment Selections, vol. III. p. 193; and Prinsep's Antiquities by Thomas, vol. II. Us. Tab. p. 247.