[30]. [He died at Adoni in 1698 (Erskine iii. A. 322).]
[31]. [According to Erskine (iii. B. 86) he died of smallpox in the Deccan.]
[32]. ‘The children of David,’ the designation of the tract and inhabitants subject to the State of Bahawalpur, from its founder, Daud Khan, a native of Seistan. [For the Dāūdputra clan see Rose, Glossary, ii. 224 f. Their history is fully given by Malik Muhammad Din, Bahāwalpur State Gazetteer, i. 47 ff.]
[33]. She was the sister of the Jhalai chief, heir presumptive to the gaddi of Jaipur, on failure of lineal issue.
[34]. [In the Patiāla State, Panjāb.]
[35]. [Nohar and Bhukārka are about 120 miles N.E. of Bīkaner city.]
[36]. The story of Nala and Damayanti (or Nal Daman, as it is familiarly called in these regions) is well known in oriental literature. From Nal the famed castle of Narwar is named, of which this suitor for the hand of the Bīkaner princess was deprived by Sindhia. [The famous tale of Nala and Damayanti from the Mahābhārata is perhaps best known from Dean Milman’s version. Narwar is now in Gwalior State.]
[37]. [Churu, about 100 miles N.E.E. of Bīkaner city.]
[38]. [Possibly Mojarh, about 40 miles S.E. of Bahāwalpur city.]
[39]. Its former name was Balar, one of the most ancient cities of the desert, as is Phulra, a Johya possession.