[20]. [Girdhar Bahādur was a Nāgar Brāhman; Ibrāhīm Kuli, son of Shujā’at Khān.]
[21]. Afterwards Wazir of Oudh, a State founded and maintained by consummate treason.
[22]. Nawab of Bengal, another traitor.
[23]. This number of cities, towns, and villages constituted the kingdom of Gujarat under its ancient sovereigns.
[24]. Sar, ‘the head,’ buland, ‘exalted, high, arrogant.’ I write the name Sirbullund, being the orthography long known.
[25]. In the original, the emperor is called the Aspati, ‘lord of swords,’ or perhaps Aswapati, ‘lord of steeds.’
[26]. Both these places are famous in the Mewasa, or fastnesses of Sirohi, and gave the Author, who was intrusted with its political affairs, much trouble. Fortunately for the Deora prince, descendant of Rao Narayan Das, the Author knew their history, and was enabled to discriminate the claims which Jodhpur asserted over her in virtue of such attacks as this; in short, between the claims of ‘the princes of Marwar,’ and the king’s lieutenants of Gujarat. In these negotiations wherein Jodhpur advanced its pretensions to suzeraineté over Sirohi, which as stoutly denied the right, he clearly distinguished the claims of the princes of Jodhpur, in their capacities of viceroys of the empire, and argued that claims conceded by Sirohi in that character guaranteed none to them, in their individual capacity, as chiefs of Marwar, a distinction which they affected not to comprehend, but which was at length fully recognized and acted on by the paramount power. Sirohi is maintained in its ancient independence, which but for this previous knowledge must have been inevitably lost.
[27]. [It was Rāo Mān Singh III. (A.D. 1705-49) who gave his daughter in marriage to Abhai Singh. The Sirohi records contain no mention of a Rāo named Nārāyan Dās (Erskine iii. A. 243).]
[28]. The kilkila is the bird we call the kingfisher.
[29]. The maids of war, the Valkyries of Rajput mythology.