[17]. On the coast of Mekran.
[18]. If we can credit these legends, we see the Rathor Rajputs spreading over all India. I give these bare facts verbatim, as some traces may yet remain of the races in those countries. [These are pure legends, see Smith, EHI, 377 ff.]
[19]. [Bahra] a city often mentioned by Ferishta [i. Introd. lxxii.] in the early times of the Muhammadans.
[20]. Naīn Pal must have preceded Dharma-Bambo by five or six generations.
[21]. Called Abhaichand, in the Suraj Prakas.
[22]. Also styled Bijaipal; classically Vijayapala, ‘Fosterer of Victory.’[Victory.’]
[23]. The Suraj Prakas.
[24]. See Inscriptions of Jaichand, Vijayachand, and Kora, in the 9th and 14th vols. of the Asiatic Researches.
[25]. The Nilab, or ‘blue water,’ the Indus, changed its name to the ‘Redstream’ (Surkhab), or ‘ensanguined.’
[26]. It is singular that Chand likewise mentions the Frank as being in the army of Shihabu-d-din, in the conquest of his sovereign Prithiraj. If this be true, it must have been a desultory or fugitive band of crusaders.