PRAMARA, properly Paramara, one of the four Agnicula Rajput tribes. Of their thirty-five sacra are— Mori, of which was Chandragupta and the princes of Chitore prior to the Gehlot.
Soda, Sogdi of Alexander, the princes of Dhat in the Indian desert.
Sankla, chiefs of Poogul, and in Marwar. Khyr, capital Khyralu.
Oomra and Soomra, anciently in the desert, now ithammadans.
Vehil or Bihil, princes of Chandravati. Maipaumt, present chief of Bijolli in Mewar. Bulhar, northern desert.
Kaba, celebrated in Saurashtra in ancient times ; a few yet in Omuta, the princes of Omutwarra, in Malwa, then established for twelve generations. Omut warra is the largest tract left to the Pramara. Since the war in 1817, being under British inter ference, they cannot be called independent.
Rehar, Dhoonda, Soniteah, and Hurair, Grasia petty chiefs in Malwa.
The Pramara. though not, as the name implies, the chief warrior, was the most potent of the Agnicula, and acted an important part in the history of India in the middle ages. They sent forth thirty - five sacra • or branches, several of whom enjoyed extensive sovereignties. The world is the Pramar's, is an ancient saying, denot ing their extensive sway ; and the No-kot maroost' bath. signified the nine divisions into which the country from the Sutlej to the ocean was parti tioned amongst them. Maheshwar, Dhar, Mandu,
Ujjain, Chandrahhaga, Chitore, Abu, Chand ravati, M'how, Maidana, Parmavati, Omrakot, Bekher, Lodurva, and Puttan are the most con spicuous of the capitals they conquered or founded. Not one remnant of independence exists to mark the ancient greatness of the Pramara ; ruins are the sole records of their power. Of all their pos sessions, the prince of Dhat, in the Indian desert, is the last scion of royalty ; and the descendant of the prince who protected Humayun, in whose capital, Omrakot, Akbar was born, is in very humble position. Among the thirty - five sacra the Vehil was eminent, the princes of which line appear to have been lords of Chandravati, at the foot of the Aravalli ; but of the dynasties issuing from the Agnicula, many of the princes professed the Buddhist or Jain faith to periods so late as the Muhammadan invasion. Maheshwar was the ancient seat of the Hya dynasty. The Mori race, whose leader Chandragupta, as is supposed, op posed Alexander, was a Takshak, and the ancient inscriptions of the Pramara declare them to be of the race of Tusta and Takshak.—Colonel Tod's Rajasthan, i. pp. 92, 93.