[16]. [To propitiate the gate spirit.]
[17]. This Shahzada must have been prince Azam, who was nominated viceroy of Gujarat and Marwar.
[18]. This record of the manifold injuries, civil and religious, under which the Hindu nation groaned is quite akin to the sentiments of the letter of remonstrance addressed by Rana Raj Singh to Aurangzeb. See Vol. I. p. [442].
[19]. He is called the samdhi, or ‘son-in-law of the king.’ [There is no record of his marriage to a daughter of Aurangzeb (IA, xl. 83). It is the fathers of a bride and bridegroom who stand in the relation of samdhi to each other.]
[20]. 5th Chait S. 1763. The 28th Zu-lqa’ada [March 3, 1707].
[21]. The Rajputs gave up beards the better to distinguish them from the Muslims.
[22]. Shah Alam, who assumed the title of Bahadur Shah on mounting the throne. [The battle in which Azam was defeated was fought on June 7, 1707.]
[23]. The Mangalia is a branch of the Guhilots, severed from the original stem in the reign of Bappa Rawal eleven centuries ago.
[24]. [According to Khāfi Khān, the submission of Ajīt Singh was complete; he even asked that the mosque at Jodhpur should be rebuilt, temples destroyed, and the law about the summons to prayer and the killing of cows enforced—concessions he would not have been likely to make unless he was reduced to extremities (Elliot-Dowson vii. 405).]
[25]. ‘The warrior’s sword.’