┌────────────────────┐ Jaipal. Harspal. │ ├──────────────┬───────────┐ Ajaideo, Bijaideo. Udaideo. or Ananddeo. ├───────────────┬─────────────┐ │ │ │ Someswar: Kan Rae. Jeth, Goelwal. married Ruka Bai, │ daughter of Anangpal │ Tuar king of Delhi. │ │ Isardas; │ turned Muhammadan. │ ├────────────────────┐ │ │ Prithiraj; Chahirdeo. obtained Delhi; slain by │ Shihabu-d-din, S. 1249, │ A.D. 1193. │ │ Vijaya Raj. ┌ Adopted successor to Prithiraj; │ │ └ his name is on the pillar at Delhi. │ ┌─────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌ Had twenty-one sons; seven of whom were │ │ │ legitimate, the others illegitimate, and Rainsi; │ │ and founders of mixed tribes. From slain in the sack Lakhansi┤ Lakhansi there are twenty-six generations of Delhi. │ to Noniddh Singh, the present chieftain │ of Nimrana, the nearest lineal descendant └ of Ajaipal and Prithiraj. [452] The inscription commences and ends with the same date, namely, 15th of the month Baisakh, S. 1220. If correctly copied, it can have no reference to Bisaldeo, excepting as the ancestor of Prativa Chahumana tilaka Sakambhari bhupati; or ‘Prithiraja Chauhan, the anointed of Sambhar, Lord of the earth,’ who ruled at Delhi in S. 1220, and was slain in S. 1249, retaining the ancient epithet of ‘Lord of Sambhar,’ one of the early seats of their power.[10.1.58] The second stanza, however, tells us we must distrust the first of the two dates, and read 1120 (instead of 1220), when Visaladeva “exterminated the barbarians” from Aryavarta. The numerals 1 and 2 in Sanskrit are easily mistaken. If, however, it is decidedly 1220, then the whole inscription belongs to Prativa Chahumana, between whom and Visala no less than six princes intervene,[10.1.59] and the opening is merely to introduce Prithiraja’s lineage, in which the sculptor has foisted in the date. I feel inclined to assign the first stanza to Visaladeva (Bisaldeo), and what follows to his descendant Prithiraj, who by a conceit may have availed himself of the anniversary of the victory of his ancestor, to record his own exploits. These exploits were precisely of the same nature—successful war against the Islamite, in which each drove him from Aryavarta; for even the Muslim writers acknowledge that Shihabu-d-din was often ignominiously defeated before he finally succeeded in making a conquest of northern India [453].