[15]. We shall explain this by a cutting of the genealogical tree: it may be found useful should we be called on to arbitrate in these matters.
[16]. Purbias, ‘men of the east,’ as the Maghrabis are ‘of the west.’
[17]. The Nakkara Darwaza, where the grand kettledrum is stationed, to give the alarm or summons to the chieftains to repair to the Presence. To this gate Raja Man advanced to meet the Author, then the representative of the Governor-General of India.
[18]. [Rās, 70 miles E. of Jodhpur city.]
[20]. See p. [875] for the details of this battle.
[21]. [It is commonly believed in India that diamond dust is poisonous (Chevers, Manual of Medical Jurisprudence in India, 289 ff.). Powdered glass is used in the same way, as in a recent case at Agra (The Times, 19th December 1912; Labanés, Les Curiosities de la Medicine, 146 ff.).]
[22]. Damraj was not a Rajput, but of the Singhi tribe, one of the civil officers; though it is a curious and little-known fact, that almost all the mercantile tribes of Western India are of Rajput origin, and sank the name and profession of arms when they became proselytes to Jainism, in the reign of Raja Bhim Pramar. The Chitor inscription (see p. [919] and note [7], p. 921) records the name of this prince. He was ancestor of Raja Man, whose date S. 770 (A.D. 714) allows us to place this grand conversion prior to A.D. 650. [The Singhis were originally Brāhmans converted to Jainism (Census Report, Mārwār, 1891, ii. 116).]
[23]. [Pāsbāni, meaning ‘guarding, protecting,’ is a synonym for Gola, the hereditary slave class, illegitimate offspring by Rājputs of women attendants in the Zanāna; they are also known as Dārogha, Khawāss, or Chela (Census Report, Mārwār, 1891, ii. 181).]
[24]. [In the Bhīlāra Hakūmat, in the centre of Jodhpur State.]