Kota

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Kota (Hindi:कोटा) formerly known as Kotah, is a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. Situated on the banks of Chambal River, the city is the trade centre.

Origin

Present Day Kota owes its foundations to a Kotya Bhil warrior who 800 years ago built a small fortification at akelgarh and put up a protective mud-wall around it all the way to Retwali.

Jat history

Maharaja Shalendra was a Jat King in early fifth century in Punjab. After the fall of Kushan empire in India Jats had many small republics. There was no prominent Jat king for about two centuries after Kushans. But Maharaja Shalendra in fifth century again established a kingdom, which extended from Punjab to Malwa and Rajasthan. James Tod found an inscription in 1820 AD at village ‘Kanswa’ in Kota state. Tod in ‘Tod Rajasthan’ has described it and salient features of this inscription are as under:[1]

1. Shalendra was a ruler of Shalpuri, the modern Sialkot. He got this state with his own strength.

2. He has a huge army and rich treasury.

3. He was Shuryavanshi Jat.

4. He left Buddhism and adopted Puranic religion.

5. The fort of Taxila was under him.

6. He married with a woman of other caste, as a result he had a Dogla son.

7. His son in law married with Yadav Vanshi girls indicates that he was a Taxak Suryavanshi Jat.

8. The chronology of the ruler Maharaja Shalendra is as under: 1. Maharaja Shalendra 2. Dogla 3. Sambuk 4. Degali 5. Veer Narendra.

9. Due to attack of Hunas, the kingdom of descendants of Shalendra was destroyed who moved to Malwa where in samvat 597 (540 AD) Veer Chandra’s son Shalichandra built a temple in village Kanswa on the bank of Taveli River and put inscription in memory of their rule.

List of protected monuments by archaeological survey of India in Rajasthan in kota district has three sites:[2]

  1. Charchoma-Shiva Temple and two unpublished Gupta Inscriptions
  2. Dara- Temple, Fortwall and Statues
  3. Kanswa - Kanswa or Kansua temple with a four faced Shiva Lingam. Temple with Inscription

Reference

  1. ↑ Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992, pp. 208-211.
  2. ↑ http://museumsrajasthan.gov.in/mounment_11.htm
  • Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992.

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