[14]. [June 23, 1665.]
[15]. [Jai Singh seems to have had no direct part in the escape of Sivaji from Delhi, August 29, 1666 (Grant Duff, Hist. Mahrattas, 96).]
[16]. The common epithet of the Islamite emperors, in the dialect of the bard, is Aspat, classically Aswapati, ‘lord of horses.’
[17]. [He was appointed Faujdār of Jamrūd at the mouth of the Khaibar Pass.]
[18]. [A near relation by marriage.]
[19]. This mode of being rid of enemies is firmly believed by the Rajputs, and several other instances of it are recorded in this work. Of course, it must be by porous absorption; and in a hot climate, where only a thin tunic is worn next the skin, much mischief might be done, though it is difficult to understand how death could be accomplished. [See p. [728]. ] That the belief is of ancient date we have only to recall the story of Hercules put into doggerel by Pope:
——“He, whom Dejanire
Wrapp’d in th’ envenom’d shirt, and set on fire.”
[“The Wife of Bath,” [380]-1. The tragical death of Prithi Singh is still the subject for songs of the bards (Temple, Legends of the Panjāb, iii. 252 ff.).]
[20]. [This is an error. Jaswant Singh died December 18, 1678 (Irvine’s note on Manucci ii. 233, IA, xl. 77). Sivaji died probably on April 17, 1680 (Fryer, New Account of East India and Persia, ed. Hakluyt Society, iii. 167).]