[20]. The Author.
[21]. With the articles of complaint of the vassals of Deogarh and the short extorted charter, to avoid future cause for such, we may contrast the following: "Pour avoir une idée du brigandage que les nobles exerçaient à l’époque où les premieres chartes furent accordées, il suffit d’en lire quelques-unes, et l’on verra que le seigneur y disait:—‘Je promets de ne point voler, extorquer les biens et les meubles des habitans, de les délivrer des totes ou rapines, et autres mauvaises coutumes, et de ne plus commettre envers eux d’exactions.’—En effet, dans ces tems malheureux, vivres, meubles, chevaux, voitures, dit le savant Abbé de Mably, tout était enlevé par l’insatiable et aveugle avidité des seigneurs" (Art. ‘Chartres,’ Dict. de l’Ancien Régime).
[22]. This reply to the remonstrance of his vassals is perfectly similar in point to the 43rd article of Magna Charta.
[23]. Invocations to Ram, Ganesh (god of wisdom), and Eklinga, the patron-divinity of the Sesodia Guhilots.
[24]. The first of the foreign vassals of the Rana’s house. [Bari Sādri, about 50 miles E.S.E. of Udaipur city, held by the senior noble of Mewār, a Rājput of the Jhāla sub-sept, styled Rāja of Sādri (Erskine ii. A. 93).]
[25]. A horse furnished by the prince, always replaced when he dies, therefore called Amar, or immortal.
[26]. The grand military festival, when a muster is made of all the Rajput quotas.
[27]. The first of the home-chieftains.
[28]. The tail of the wild ox, worn across the saddle-bow.
[29]. An umbrella or shade against the sun; from kiran, ‘a ray.’