Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1919 (New Series)

When in consequence of the new arrangement concluded in coperation with the Archaeological Survey of India - in August 1916 ' 1 was entrusted with the collection of materials for the compilation of a list of the archaeological remains in the Bikaner State I had thought I could easily do the archaeologcal exploration of the district simultaneously with the search for manuscripts and inscript [...] The poem is of course in Dingala and though the subject—the story of the rape of Rukmitil by Krsna and the sequel of their loves down to the birth of Pradyumna--is not bardic in itself the treat meet is bardic the form is bardic and the language is bardic. [...] But there are good reasons for believing that the case of the Jodhpur Darbar will not be repeated and the fact of the Darbars of Ratlam Sitamau and Sailana coming spontaneously fozward to bear the cost of printing the Vacanikii merely from the idealistic motive of the connection of their families with Ratana Singha is a sign which clearly indicates that the Survey has kindled some interest in [...] ChB:pare was one of the two capitals of the blohilas a branch of the Cahuvanas or Citharrinnas who with the hereditary title of rams for at least two centuries held under their sway a very large tract of coutry in what is now the south-eastern part of the Bikaner State till they were subjugated by the RA-00as in the early decades of the Samvat century 1500. [...] Unfortunately the inscription on this decal is so effaced that only the date Samvat 1241 and the name Mohila Inda Pala (probably the father of the deceased) is legible to-day but all the same the record is important in that it gives an idea of the extent to which the Mohilas were spread over the coutry in those early days.