[10]. The title, tribe, and capital of this race show that the Bhattis were intimately connected with the neighbouring States.
[11]. [About 100 miles N.N.E. of Jodhpur city.]
[12]. [In Mallāni, the ‘cradle of the Rāthors.’]
[13]. This can mean nothing more than that desultory attacks were carried on against the Bhatti capital. It is certain that Ala never carried his arms in person against Jaisalmer. [It is impossible to reconcile the dates, and this siege is not mentioned by Muhammadan historians. It is said to have lasted from A.D. 1286 to 1295. Balban reigned 1266-1286-7, and Alāu-d-dīn did not ascend the throne till 1296. Much of the narrative is a fiction of the Bhatti bards.]
[14]. [Prosopis spicigera.]
[15]. Sohagan, one who becomes Sati previous to her lord’s death; Duhagan, who follows him after death.
[16]. Literally, ‘the royal gate’; an allusion to the female apartments, or Rajloka.
[17]. Bala, is under sixteen; praurha, middle-aged; briddhu, when forty.
[18]. The funereal qualities of the tulsi plant, and the emblematic Salagram, or stone found in the Gandak River, have been often described.
[19]. On two occasions the Rajput chieftain wears the mor [maur], or ‘coronet’: on his marriage, and when going to die in battle; symbolic of his nuptials with the Apsaras, or ‘fair of heaven.’