[24] According to a local tradition the people in despair at the ravages of Sarika turned for help to Devi. The goddess said: Kill buffaloes, eat their flesh, and wear their hides and Sarika will not touch you. The people obeyed and were saved. Since then a dough buffalo has taken the place of the flesh buffalo and unwashed cloth of the bleeding hide. Another version sounds like a reminiscence of the Tartar origin of Kṛishṇa. The goddess Khamangiri persuaded the Lord Kṛishṇa to celebrate his marriage clad in the raw hide of a cow. In the present era unwashed cloth has taken the place of leather. MS. Note from Mr. Ratan Lall Pandit. [↑]
[25] The tradition recorded by Tod (Western India, 209) that the Gurjjaras are descended from the Solaṅkis of Aṇahilaváḍa, taken with the evidence noted in the section on History that the Chávaḍás or Chápas and the Parihárs are also Gurjjaras makes it probable that the Choháns are of the same origin and therefore that the whole of the Agnikulas were northern conquerors who adopting Hinduism were given a place among Rájputs or Kshatriyás. [↑]
[26] Epigraphia Indica, II. 40–41. [↑]
[27] According to Katta, a Bráhma-Bhát of remarkable intelligence, the Osváls include Rájputs of a large number of tribes, Aadas, Bhátis, Boránas, Buruds, Chováns, Gehlots, Gohils, Jádavs, Makvánás, Mohils, Parmárs, Ráhtors, Shálas, Tilars. They are said to have been converted to the Jain religion in Osianagara in Saṁvat Bia Varsh 22 that is in a.d. 165. [↑]
[28] Indian Antiquary, VIII. 237. [↑]
[30] Indian Antiquary, XI. 156 and VI. 59. [↑]
[31] Indian Antiquary, XII. 156. [↑]