[A]. S. 1737, A.D. 1681.
[51]. It was to defend the rights of the heir of Marwar, as well as to oppose the odious jizya, that the Rana took to arms. Ajit was still under the Rana’s safeguard.
[52]. [Orme, Fragments, 217 f. A different story is told by Khāfi Khān (Elliot-Dowson vii. 334).]
[53]. [A common error; Gomati, meaning ‘rich in cattle,’ has no connexion with Hindi ghūmna, ‘to twist.’]
[54]. Ninety-six lakhs of rupees [Erskine ii. A. 9].
[55]. A.D. 1661.
[56]. From all I could learn, it was the identical pestilence which has been ravaging India for the last ten years, erroneously called cholera morbus. About thirty-five years ago the same disease carried off multitudes in these countries. Orme [Fragments, 200] gives notice of something similar in A.D. 1684, in the imperial camp near Goa, when five hundred victims daily fell its prey. Mewar was not free from the last visitation of 1818, and the only son of the Rana was the first person attacked.
[57]. The three months of rain, termed the Barsat. [Asārh is the month June to July, followed by Sāwan and Bhādon.]
[58]. The four castes, sacerdotal, military, mercantile, and servile.
[59]. From the Raj Vilas, the chronicle of the reign of Raj Singh.