[26]. In allusion to his vacillation, for which the Mirza Rāja was notorious.
[27]. [That is to say, the Kachhwāha Rāja.]
[28]. [For this revolution see Elliot-Dowson vii. 474 ff.]
[29]. The Star Fort, the castle of Ajmer.
[30]. The call to prayer of the Muslim.
[31]. This exact imitation of the manners of the imperial court is still strictly maintained at Jodhpur. The account of the measures which followed the possession of Ajmer is taken from the chronicle Surya Prakas; the only part not entirely translated from the Raj Rupak Akhyat. Ajmall is a licence of the poet, where it suits his rhyme, for Ajit. Aspati, ‘lord of steeds,’ is the common epithet applied to the emperors of Delhi. It is, however, but the second degree of paramount power—Gajpati, ‘lord of elephants,’ is the first.
[32]. The two latter tribes are amongst the most ancient of the allodial chieftains of the desert: the Dhondals being descendants of Rao Gango; the Gogawats, of the famous Goga [or Gūga] the Chauhan, who defended the Sutlej in the earliest Muslim invasion recorded. Both Goga and his steed Jawadia are immortal in Rajasthan. The Author had a chestnut Kathiawar, called Jawadia; he was perfection, and a piece of living fire when mounted, scorning every pace but the antelope’s bounds and curvets.
[33]. [Pātan in Jaipur State; Narnol in Patiāla; Rewāri in Gurgaon District, Panjāb.]
[34]. One of the great clans of Amber; of whom more hereafter.
[35]. [The tortoise (Kachhwāha) and the sun (the sun-born tribes).]