Note 66 — BHINMÁL.

Appendix III. Bhinmál. History. Inscription No. 12 shows that Udayasiṁha had a son named Váhaḍhasiṁha, who, as he is given no royal title, probably died before his father. Udayasiṁha’s successor, or at all events the next king in whose reign grants are dated, was Cáciga, who is given the title of Maháraul in Inscriptions 11 (a.d. 1277) and 12 (a.d. 1278).66 His relationship to Udayasiṁha does not clearly appear, but he was probably either an elder brother or an uncle of the Cámuṇḍa for whose benefit the gift recorded in Inscription 12 was made and who seems to be a grandson of Udayasiṁha. Cáciga appears to be the Mahámaṇḍaleśvara Cáciga of Inscription 15 in the Bháunagar State Collection (Bháu. Prá. I. list page 5) which is stated to bear the date Saṁvat 1332 (a.d. 1276) and to be engraved on a pillar in the temple of Pársvanátha at Ratanpur near Jodhpúr. It is clear that he was tributary to some greater power though it is not easy to say who his suzerain was. At this period Márwár was in a state of chaos under the increasing pressure of the Ráthoḍs. Only five years after Cáciga’s last date (a.d. 1278) we meet with the name of a new ruler, the Maháraul Śrí Sámvatasiṁha. He is mentioned in Inscriptions 13 (a.d. 1283) 14 (a.d. 1286) and 15 (a.d. 1289) and also in 44 of the Bháunagar Collection (a.d. 1296 Bháu. Prá. I. list page 13) from a Jain temple at Juná. He is not stated to have belonged to the same family as the previous rulers, but he bears the family title of Maháraul, and it may be inferred with probability that he was a son of Cáciga. He reigned for at least thirteen years (a.d. 1283–1296). It must have been about a.d. 1300 or a little later, that the Choháns were deprived of Bhinmál by the Ráthoḍs and the line of Udayasiṁha died out.67