[21]. Deorawal is in the map; it was one of the points of halt in Elphinstone’s mission to Kabul. This discloses to us the position of the Buta territory, and as astronomical data are given, those inclined to prove or disprove the Bhatti chronology have ample means afforded.
[22]. [‘One who has attained beatitude.’]
[23]. Called geru; garments coloured with this dye are worn by all classes of mendicants.
[24]. The mudra is a round prickly seed worn by the ascetics as ear-rings.
[25]. The Supreme Being; the universal and One God.
[26]. Rawal [rājakula, ‘of the royal house’] is still the title of the princes of Jaisalmer, as it once was that of the Mewar house.
[27]. [Khizr Khān was left in charge of Delhi after the sack of that city by Timūr in A.D. 1398; possessed little power, and died in 1421.]
[28]. [iv. 380, 383 f. Abu-l-fazl (Āīn, ii. 337) calls them Nohmardi; see Census Report, Baluchistan, 1911, i. 171.]
[29]. [The theory of the Jewish descent of the Afghāns is not now accepted by any serious student. They are probably of Aryan origin, though the Yadu theory in the text is not supported by good evidence. They link India on the east with Persia on the west (Sykes, Hist. of Persia, ii. 306; Bellew, Races of Afghanistan, 15 ff.).]
[30]. [Lodorwa, 10 miles N. of Jaisalmer. For its temples see Erskine iii. A. 17.]