CHAPTER 14
Rāja Bhīm Singh, A.D. 1793-1803.
Rāja Bhīm disposes of his Rivals.
A single claimant alone remained of all the blood royal of Maru to disturb the repose of Bhim. This was young Man, the adopted son of the concubine, placed beyond his reach within the walls of Jalor. Could Bhim’s dagger have reached him, he would have stood alone, the last surviving scion of the parricide,
With none to bless him,
None whom he could bless:
an instrument, in the hand of divine power, to rid the land of an accursed stock. Then the issue of Abhai Singh would have utterly perished, and their ashes might have been given to the winds, and no memorial of them left. Idar must then have supplied an heir,[[2]] and the doubtful pretensions of Dhonkal,[[3]] the posthumous and reputed son of the wholesale assassin Bhim, to sit upon the gaddi of Ajit, would never have been brought forward to excite another murderous contest amongst the sons of Jodha.