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 312 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [November, 1873. stand, the tongue is the pen; now and then to write and present the account of the glory of Hari’s name is my occupation.” Regarding the service (sevd) of the Dasas, Y a r a h a prays: “ Through V y a s a is the Yeda service, through P a r a s a r a the Smriti service, the wholesome Vrata (vow) service through RukmAhgada; make thou the service to become a Dasa rise in me ! I will become a servant (sevika)/” “Thy service (sevd), thy worship (pujd), thy name are on my tongue, O YarAha Timmappa! ” “ If Hari’s thought (dhydna), Hari’s worship (*mjd), the praise (kirtana) of Hari’s name, the dance (nartana) of Hari’s devotion (bhakti), Hari’s services (sevd) do not appear (to thee) severally, with perseverance call YarAha Timmappa, O mind ! ” And, in a refrain, V i j a y a sings : ‘‘This is the Dasas' lot: they fill all conn- tries.” Some of tho songs are didactic, reminding of the sure approach of death or of hell, and thus exhorting to worship Krishna; or inculcating some sort of judicious (sometimes quaint) or also moral conduct. Others refer to the feats of BAla Krishna ; others enjoin the pujd of the Tulasi or that at Dasamis, Ekadasis, DvAdasis, <fcc. ; others contain an enumeration of the ten incarnations (d/isdvatdra); others relate how Krishna helped the PAndavas and killed the Kauravas (as the partisans of Siva) ; others are rather impatient prayers under difficulties ; one or two are morning songs to awaken the idol to receive the offerings brought; others describe the dress of the idol; others recommend a pil¬ grimage to Tirupati or give a description of such a one, &c. Purandara, in three songs, containing together 237 verses, paints the different piijds connected with the Udupu establishment, as they take place under ordinary circumstances or at festivals. Idolatry has, to a large extent, been promoted by the Karna¬ taka DA sa movement. A reference to Chaitanya, the BaSgali* I have found nowhere in the Kirndfaki Dasa padas; Chaitanya as an epithet of Krish¬ na, however, occurs a few times. Merlcara, 22nd July 1873. LEGENDS OF THE EARLIER CHUDASAMA RAS OF JUNAGADH. BY MAJOR J. W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAHLANPUR. The bards relate that YA1A RAma RAjA, son of VA1A Wareingji, reigned at JunAgadh and Yan- thali. He was famed for his munificence, and it is told of him that when his beard was shaved for the first time, he gave in charity twenty-one villages and distributed fifty lakhs of rupees as alms to the poor. RAma RAjA was of the Vala race. It is said in SaurAshtra that previous to the rise of the kingdom of JunAgadh-Yantliali Yalabhinagar was the capital of GujarAt. The rise of Yalabhi is thus told by the bards. The Gupta kings reigned between the Ganges and damn A rivers. One of these kings sent his son KumAra PA1 Gupta to conquer SaurAshtra, and placed his Yiceroy ChakrapAni, son of PrAndat, one of his Amirs, to reign as a provincial Gover¬ nor in the city of WAmanasthali (the modern Wanthali). KumAra PA1 now returned to his father’s kingdom. His father reigned 23 years after the conquest of SaurAshtra and then died, mappa (if Udupu, and not Tirupati, is uudorstood. Udupu1'« idol would bear the fame name), (i.e.) &va, the great Rudra, the fire-eyed, the husband of the daughter of (Hima) giri.” This plainly refers one to another song of Purandara wherein he says that in Udupu there is and KumAra Pal ascended the throne. KumAra PA1 Gupta reigned 20 years and then died, and was succeeded by Skanda Gupta, but this king was of a weak intellect. His Sennpati, BhattA- raka, who was of the Gehloti race, taking a strong army, came into SaurAshtra and made his rule firm there. Two years after this Skanda Gupta died. The Senapati now assumed the title of King of SaurAshtra, and, having placed a Governor at WAmanasthali, founded the city of Valabhinagar. At this time the Gupta race were dethroned by foreign invaders. The Sena¬ pati was a Gehlot, and his forefathers reigned at Ayodliya Nagari until displaced by the Gupta dynasty. After founding Yalabhi he established his rule in SaurAshtra, Kachli, Lat-desh, and MAlwa. The VAlas were a branch of the Gehlots. After the fall of Yalabhi the YAl i governor of WA- manasthali became independent. Ram RAja had no son, but his sister was married to the RAja of a temple (<;w;i) of the three gods, bo that it is Brahma pura, Kail As a, and Vaikuntha, there being guru Brahma, guru Vishnu, and guru Mahf devu. I have in¬ quired and learned that Brahmans culled Udupu also Raja- tapura.