[10]. For a description of this festival see p. [675].
[11]. The Yati’s roll says Ganga was poisoned; but this is not confirmed by any other authority.
[12]. [The dates are doubtful. See the legend of the marriage of Rāo Māldeo to Uma, daughter of the Bhatti Chief of Jaisalmer (IA, iii. 96 ff.).]
[13]. [“The most powerful of the Hindu princes who still retained their independence,” trans. Briggs, ii. 121.]
[14]. Mr. Elphinstone apprehended an attack from the Maldots on his way to Kabul.
[15]. Such is the Rajput’s notion of swamidharma, or “fidelity to him whose salt they eat,” their immediate lord, even against their king.
[16]. In allusion to the poverty of the soil, as unfitted to produce richer grains [Ferishta ii. 123; see pp. [835], [931] above].
[17]. There is a biographical account of this monarch, during his exile in Persia, written by his Abdar, or ‘cup-bearer,’ in the library of Major W. Yule, of Edinburgh, and which, when translated, will complete the series of biography of the members of the house of Timur. [The Tazkirātu-l-wāki‘āt of Jauhar, extracts from which are translated in Elliot-Dowson v. 136 ff.]
[18]. [The capture of Merta in 1562 by Sharafu-dīn Husain Mirza is described in Akbarnāma, trans. H. Beveridge, ii. 247 f.; Smith, Akbar, 59.]
[19]. [The statement that Chandarsen was second son of Māldeo rests on the Author’s account, and is not mentioned in the Akbarnāma.]