[56]. ‘The first striker.’
[57]. [In the Hāra version of the legend the presiding priest is Visvāmitra.]
[58]. Chatur; anga, ‘body’ [chaturbāhu].
[59]. Asa, ‘hope,’ purna, to ‘fulfil’; whence the tutelary goddess of the Chauhan race, Asapurna.
[60]. The goddess of energy (Sakti).
[61]. [Cunningham points out that in the original story only the Chauhān was created from the fire-pit, the reference to other clans being a later addition (ASR, ii. 255).]
[62]. Born in S. 1215, or A.D. 1159. [Anhala or Agnipāla is here the head of the Chauhān line; but a different list appears in the Hammīra Mahākāvya of Nayachhandra Sūri (IA, viii. 55 ff.).]
[63]. [Ajmer is commonly said to have been founded by Rāja Aja, A.D. 145. It was founded by Ajayadeva Chauhān about A.D. 1100 (IA, xxv. 162 f.).]
[64]. A name derived from the goddess Sakambhari, the tutelary divinity of the tribes, whose statue is in the middle of the lake.
[65]. Dharma Dhiraj, father of Bisaladeva, must have been the defender on this occasion.