[27]. [Ruler of a district (mandal).]
[28]. They thus style the kings west of the Indus.
[29]. [The “Seonair” of the text seems to represent swayamvara, the rite of selection of her husband by a maiden.]
[30]. [Shihābu-d-dīn, A.D. 1175-1206.]
[31]. [The Kālindi River, the name of which was corrupted into Kālinadi, rises in the Muzaffarnagar District, and joins the Ganges near Kanauj, 310 miles from its source (IGI, xiv. 309).]
[32]. [The word Mewār represents the original Medapāta, “land of the Med tribe.” The bulk of the army of Chashtana, the Western Satrap, appears to have consisted of Mevas or Medas, from whose settlement in Central Rājputāna the province seems to have received its present name, Mewāda (BG, i. Part i. 33).]
[33]. [His corpse was recognized by his false teeth, “a circumstance which throws some light on the state of manners” (Elphinstone 365).]
[34]. Another title of the monarch of Kanauj, “the bard of the host,” from which we are led to understand he was as well versed in the poetic art as his rival, the Chauhan prince of Delhi.