[16]. The cenotaph of these warriors still marks the spot where they fell, on the right on entering the portals.
[17]. The heaps of grain thrashed in the open field, preparatory to being divided and housed, are termed khallas.
[18]. Oath of allegiance.
[19]. The Mewar chronicle claims a victory for the combined Rajput army, and relates a singular stratagem by which they gained it; but either I have overlooked it, or the Raj Vilas does not specify that Prince Bhim, son of the heroic Rana Raj, fell on this day, so glorious in the annals of both States. See Vol. I. p. [448]. [According to Manucci (ii. 234) the Rāja “was obliged to cede to Aurangzeb a province and the town of Mairtha.” According to another story, Aurangzeb offered the succession to Ajīt Singh on condition that he was converted to Islām. The Emperor kept a counterfeit Ajīt Singh in ward, and brought him up as a Musalmān, called him Muhammadi Rāj, and on his death he was buried as a Musalmān (Jadunath Sarkar iii. 374).]
[20]. On Akbar’s rebellion see Jadunath Sarkar iii. 402 ff.]
[21]. Krishna.
[22]. [Orme, Fragments, ed. 1782, 142 ff.; Khāfi Khān in Elliot-Dowson vii. 298 ff.]
[23]. [The reading in the text is that of Dr. Tessitori. Major Luard’s Pandit, questioning the Author’s translation, says that the words Band Murdharā ra rakhyo mean ‘governed Mārwār well,’ and that bin thāmbh ākās, ‘the heavens without a prop,’ refers to the ruler who was a minor.]
[24]. The Mewar chronicle says forty thousand.
[25]. [The hill tract about Siwāna, in S. Mewār.]