[23]. Nearly ten miles south-east of Ajmer.
[24]. Jai Singh Baleo and Jaimu Sindhal.
[25]. [A common folk-tale, told of Malhar Rāo Holkar and many other princes (Crooke, Popular Religion Northern India, ii. 142; Malcolm, Memoir of Central India, 2nd ed. i. 143 f.; E. S. Hartland, Ritual and Belief, 323 f.).]
[26]. Called the devi, about the size of the wagtail, and like it, black and white.
[27]. Chhatrdhāri.
[28]. The names of his followers were, Jasa Sindhal, Sangam (Dabhi), Abha, Jana, and a Badel Rathor.
[29]. The grant in the preamble denounces a curse on any of Prithiraj’s descendants who should resume it. I have often conversed with this descendant, who held Sodhgarh and its lands, which were never resumed by the princes of Chitor, though they reverted to Marwar. The chief still honours the Rana, and many lives have been sacrificed to maintain his claims, and with any prospect of success he would not hesitate to offer his own.
[30]. This is a genuine Hindu name, ‘the Hero’s refuge,’ from sur, ‘a warrior,’ and than, ‘an abode.’
[31]. [There is an error here: there was no contemporary Sultan of Mālwa of this name.]
[32]. Near Chitor.