[4]. I hope some day to present a few of the works of the great bard Chand, with a dissertation on the Bardais, and all the ‘sons of song.’ [Karan flourished about A.D. 1730: see Grierson, Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan, 98.]
[5]. Entitled the Surya Prakas, of 7500 stanzas.
[6]. Kāvīswar, or kāvya-īswara, ‘lord of verse,’ from kāvya, ‘poesy,’ and īswara, ‘lord.’
[7]. The portal of the palace appears to have been the bard’s post. Pope gives the same position to his historic bards in ‘the Temple of Fame’:
“Full in the passage of each spacious gate,
The sage Historians in white garments wait;
Grav’d o’er their seats the form of Time was found,
His scythe revers’d, and both his pinions bound.” [l. 145-8.]
[8]. In the original, “by the bāīsa,” the ‘twenty-two,’ meaning the collective force of the twenty-two subahdars, ‘or satraps of the provinces.’
[9]. Capitation tax.