[46] Text tar, but MSS. have abtar, i.e. inferior and perhaps low land. The text seems corrupt. [↑]
[47] MSS. have 86,500 horse and 347,000 foot, and this agrees with the Āyīn (Jarrett, ii, 272). [↑]
[48] Text wrongly has Nīl. The tank in question is the Bīsalya tank of the Rajputana Gazetteer, ii, 4, which was made by Bīsal Deo Chohān about 1050 A.D. It is described in Tod’s “Personal Narrative,” i, 824, of Calcutta reprint. It is, or was, about 8 miles in circumference and is about a mile west of the Ānāsāgar, which was made by Bīsal Deo’s grandson. [↑]
[49] About 20 miles south-east of Ajmir. [↑]
[50] This is the name of a water-bird in Turkī. It is also called māg͟h and water-crow (zāg͟h-i-āb), and in Hindī jalkawā (note of Sayyid Aḥmad). [↑]
[51] Probably the meaning is that he allowed those who wished to drink to do so. Many, or at least some, would be abstainers. [↑]
[54] In Sarkār Marosor (Jarrett, ii, 208). It was in Malwa. But the I.O. MSS. have Nauda. [↑]
[55] Text Ūdaipūr, but this was not on the border of the Rānā’s territory, and the MSS. have Dūdpūr. [↑]