Taking Leave of the Rāja.
Besides the usual gifts at parting, which are matter of etiquette, and remain untouched by the individual, I accepted as a personal token of his favour, a sword, dagger, and buckler, which had belonged to one of his illustrious ancestors. The weight of the sword, which had often been “the angel of death,” would convince any one that it must have been a nervous arm which carried it through a day. With mutual good wishes, and a request for a literary correspondence, which was commenced but soon closed, I bade adieu to Raja Man and the capital of Marwar [736].
[1]. [Of Jagat Singh of Jaipur and Amīr Khān.]
[2]. [Rahkala is properly the carriage on which a field-piece is mounted: then, a swivel-gun (Irvine, Army of the Indian Moghuls, 140).]
[3]. [The population of the city in 1911 was 79,756.]
[4]. Amrit ra piyala.
[6]. [‘The self-existent.’]
[7]. [The Rāthor dynasty of Kanauj is a myth (Smith, EHI, 385, note 1).]