Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
A posthumous son, called Grahaditya, obtained a petty sovereignty at
Idar. The change was marked by his name becoming the patronymic, and
Grahilot, _vulgo_ Guhilot, designated the Suryavansa of Rama.
With reverses and migration from the wilds of Idar to Ahar,[2.7.13] the
Guhilot was changed to Aharya, by which title the race continued to be
designated till the twelfth century, when the elder brother, Rahup,
abandoned his claim to "the [84] throne of Chitor," obtained[2.7.14] by
force of arms from the Mori,[2.7.15] and settled at Dungarpur, which he
yet holds, as well as the title Aharya; while the younger, Mahup,
established the seat of power at Sesoda, whence Sesodia set aside both
Aharya and Guhilot.
Sesodia is now the common title of the race; but being only a
subdivision, the Guhilot holds its rank in the kula.
The Guhilot kula is subdivided into twenty-four sakha,[2.7.16] or
ramifications, few of which exist:
1. Aharya At Dungarpur.
2. Mangalia In the Deserts.
3. Sesodia Mewar.
4. Pipara In Marwar.
5. Kalam ┐
6. Gahor │
7. Dhornia │
8. Goda │
9. Magrasa │
10. Bhimla ├ In few numbers, and mostly
11. Kamkotak │ now unknown.
12. Kotecha │
13. Sora │
14. Uhar │
15. Useba │
16. Nirrup ┘
17. Nadoria ┐
18. Nadhota │
19. Ojakra │
20. Kuchhra ├ Almost extinct.
21. Dosadh │
22. Betwara │
23. Paha │
24. Purot ┘ [85]
=Yadu, Yādava.=—The Yadu was the most illustrious of all the tribes of
Ind, and became the patronymic of the descendants of Budha, progenitor
of the Lunar (Indu) race. Yudhishthira and Baladeva, on the death of
Krishna and their expulsion from Delhi and Dwaraka, the last stronghold
of their power, retired by Multan across the Indus. The two first are
abandoned by tradition; but the sons of Krishna, who accompanied them
after an intermediate halt in the further Duab[2.7.17] of the five
rivers, eventually left the Indus behind, and passed into
Zabulistan,[2.7.18] founded Gajni, and peopled these countries even to
Samarkand.
The annals of Jaisalmer, which give this early history of their founder,
mix up in a confused manner[2.7.19] the cause of their being again
driven back into India; so that it is impossible to say whether it was
owing to the Greek princes who ruled all these countries for a century
after Alexander, or to the rise of Islamism.
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