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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 (sevå) of the Dāsas, V a râ h a prays: “Through Vy a sa is the Veda service, through Pará ša r a the Smriti service, the wholesome Vrata (vow) service through Rukm a fig a da; make thou the service to become a D as a rise in me ! I will

become a servant (sevuka) l’” “Thy service (sevá), thy worship (pitjá), thy name are on my tongue, O Varāha Timmappa!” “If Hari's thought (dhyāna), Hari's worship (pijá), the praise (kirtana) of Hari's name, the dance (nartana) of Hari's devotion (bhakti), Hari's services (sevá) do not appear (to thee) severally, with perseverance call Varāha Timmappa, O mind!” And, in a refrain, Vijay a sings: “This is the Dăsas' lot : they fill all coun tries.”

Some of the 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.

[NoveMBER, 1873. Others refer to the feats

of Bāla Krishna; others enjoin the pitjá of the Tulasi or that at Daśamis, Ekādaśis, Dvādaśis, &c.; others contain an enumeration of the ten

incarnations (dašáratāra); others relate how Krishna helped the Pāndavas and killed the

Kauravas (as the partisans of Śiva); 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 Tir up a ti or give a description of such a one, &c.

Pu ra n d a r a , in three

songs, containing together 237 verses, paints the different pitjás connected with the U d up u establishment, as they take place under ordinary circumstances or at festivals. Idolatry has, to a large extent, been promoted by the Karn a tak a Dás a movement.

A reference to Ch a it any a, the Baigăli” I have found nowhere in the Karnātaka Dása,

padas; Chait any a as an epithet of Krish na, however, occurs a few times. Merkara, 22nd July 1873.

LEGENDS OF THE EARLIER CHUDASAMA RAS OF JUNAGADH. BY MAJOR J. W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAHLANPUR.

The bards relate that Vālā Rāma Rājā, son of Välä Warsingji, reigned at Junágadh and Van 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. Rāma Rājā was of the Vălă race. It is said in Saurashtra that previous to the rise of the kingdom of Junágadh-Vanthali Valabhinagar was the capital of Gujarat. The rise of Valabhi is thus told by the bards. The Gupta kings reigned between the Ganges and Jamnâ rivers. One of these kings sent his son Kumāra Pål Gupta to conquer Saurashtra, andplaced his Viceroy Chakrapāni, son ofPrändat, one of his Amirs, to reign as a provincial Gover nor in the city of Wämanasthali (the modern Wanthali). Kumāra Pål now returned to his father's kingdom. His father reigned 23 years after the conquest of Saurāshtra and then died, mappa (if Udupu, and not Tirupati, is understood, Udupu's idol would bear the same name), (i.e.) Siva, the great Rudra, the fire-eyed, the husband of the daughter of (Hima) giri.” This plainly refers one to another song of Pur and a ra wherein he says that in Ud up u there is

and Kumāra Pål ascended the throne.

Kumāra

Pál Gupta reigned 20 years and then died, and was succeeded by Skanda Gupta, but this king was of a weak intellect. His Senápati, Bhattā 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 Senápati now assumed the

title of King of Sauráshtra, and, having placed a Governor at Wämanasthali, founded the city of Valabhinagar. At this time the Gupta race were dethroned by foreign invaders. The Sená

pati was a Gehlot, and his forefathers reigned at Ayodhyā Nagari until displaced by the Gupta dynasty. After founding Valabhi he established

his rule in Saurashtra, Kachh, Lat-desh, and Mälwā. The Vălăs were a branch of the Gehlots.

After the fall of Valabhi the Välä governor of Wä manasthali became independent. Râm Rāja had no son, but his sister was married to the Rāja of a temple (guºji) of the three gods, so that it is Brahm a ura, Kailās a , and Vaikuntha, there being guru rahma, guru Vishnu, and guru Mahādeva. I have in. ". and learned that Brahmans called Udupu also Raja apura.