THE HISTORY OF KATHIAWAD It happened that Jam Jasaji had married Chandrasinhjf s sister, the Rani Jhali, and both she and her husband were very fond of playing chess* One day, while thus engaged, Jam Jasaji captured his wife's " Knight"—called in Gujarati "Horse"—at which she lost her temper, and said : " It is no great thing to take a horse from me, a woman, but if you can take a horse from my brother, you are indeed a Raja," Jam Jasaji accepted the challenge thus thrown out by his Jhala wife and attacked Halwad. Accounts as to what happened afterwards differ somewhat. In one Jam Jasaji is said to have failed in all his attacks upon her brother, and to have been obliged to resort to less heroic methods to effect his capture, eventually seizing him through the instru- mentality of a Nagar Brahman named Shankardas. Another account relates that Jain Jasaji sent men to Halwad, outwardly to condole with Chandrasinhji on the loss of a son, but with instructions to capture and bring him to Nawanagar, which was effected and the Jhala was afterwards released only on the intercession of Shankardas. Whichever account be true, it is certain that after a good deal of fighting Chandrasinhji was captured and taken to Nawanagar, and was afterwards released* The incident ended tragically, however, for Jam Jasaji taunted his wife about her brother, and she managed some years afterwards to poison her husband out of revenge. Chandrasinhji Jhala's troubles were not yet over, however, for he was cursed with a number of quarrel- some and rebellious sons. The eldest was named Prathiraj, against whom the second and third sons, Askaranji and Amarsinhji, plotted with the object of supplanting him. They preferred a concocted story to the Viceroy at Ahmadabad, with the result that Prathiraj was taken there as a prisoner and there died. Askaranji afterwards, in A.D. 1628, succeeded his father, but six 112