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 November, 1873.] chudAsamA rAs. 313 Nagar T hath A, who was of the SammA tribe. This sister’s son was named RA Gario, and Ram RAja bequeathed to his nephew Ra Gario the kingdom of JunAgadh-Wanthali, and Ra Gario was the first of the ChudAsamA RAs of JunAgadh. Ra Gario collected an army and attacked the Raja of Kanauj, Devgar by name, and after a great battle defeated Devgar and took Kanauj, Devgar fleeing to the banks of the Ganges. The follow¬ ing poetry commemorates this conquest:—

King Devgar was proud and happy as Kal- Indra in his abode. Gario RAo of Girnar conquered Kanauj, the principality of thirty-seven forts, lie, the exalter of bis family, easily defeated this happy lord of innumerable forces; And thus extirpating his enemies, drank the water of the Eastern Ocean (Jamna or Ganges). Gario, grandson of Rai Chuda, a descendant of VairAt, and destroyer of the best of kings, He having called all kings of that country who had been deprived of their kingdoms, re¬ placed them on their thrones, And subjugating the city of Parbatgadh, he occupied all the eastern country from the cities of Parbatgadh and Gwalior up to the banks of the Ganges, And thus became the lord of horses, elephants, and men, both of Girnar and Kanauj. After the subjugation of Kanauj, Ra Gario took the city of Dohad in MAlwA, and caused himself to be proclaimed king there. At this time Ra Gario married a daughter of a Rafchod Rajput. His descendants by this wife are called RAnAs, and are still to be found in Malwa. Kanauj and Dohad being conquered, Ra Gario returned to JunAgadh, where he reigned till his death. The third from RA GArio was RA DyAs, or Dyachh, as he is also called. His favourite wife was Sorath Rani. Ra Dyas was filmed for his munificence, and the bards declare that he gave away his head in charity to a Charan. This story is probably invented to conceal or ac¬ count for the conquest of JunAgadh by a king of Pattan. If Anhilwada Pattan is meant, this king can have been none other than Wan RAj Chaura, as Ra Dyas is said to have died in 860-61. The story runs as follows :— The daughter of the king of Pattan had come on a visit to Somnath. Ra Dyas saw her, and, becoming enamoured of her, endeavoured to compel her to marry him. The king of Pattan, hearing of this, sent a large army against RA Dyas and defeated him in the field. RA DyAs, however, shut himself up in the impregnable fort of Girnar, and laughed to scorn the efforts of the Pattan army. The king of Pattan, after a long siege, despaired of reducing the fort. Ho was about to return to his own country, when a Charan named Bijal offered to put him in possession of the place, on condition of being given a large reward. The king offered him an enormous reward, and Bijal agreed to give him the head of Ra Dyas, and it was agreed that when the garrison were occupied with the funeral ceremonies the Pattan army should attack the fort. The Charan, knowing the munificent character of the RA, determined to ask of him his head as a gift, and in his capa¬ city of a Charan easily obtained admission into the citadel. The night before this plot was formed, Sorath RAni dreamed that she saw a headless man. On consulting the astrologers they told her that her husband would shortly cut off his head and give it away in alms. As Sorath RAni had much influence in JunAgadh, she ordered her husband into captivity and im¬ prisoned him in a bastion until the fated time should be past. During this time no one was allowed to have access to him except they who supplied him with food. The ChAran therefore went outside the bastion and there began to chant verses in praise of RA DyAs, and to play on a musical instrument called a jantra. RA Dyas hearing him looked out, and, seeing the Gadvi, threw out of the window a lodh or rope with a stout stick at the end, on which to sit. The Gadvi sat on the stick and held the rope with his hands, and thus RA Dyas drew him up