[17]. Rao Pajun of Amber, one of the great vassals of the Chauhan, and ancestor of the present Raja of Jaipur.
[18]. In the original, “the land of the Baghel to that of the Chandel.” Rewa is capital of [or leading State in] Baghelkhand, founded by the Baghela Rajputs, a branch of the Solanki kings of Anhilwara.
[19]. Antarved, the Duab, or Mesopotamia of the Jumna and Ganges.
[20]. A district S.W. of Delhi, notorious for the lawless habits of its inhabitants: a very ancient Hindu race, but the greater part forced proselytes to the faith of Islam. In the time of Prithiraj the chief of Mewat was one of his vassals.
[21]. Jayapattra, or ‘bulletin of victory.’
[22]. Jaichand was then king of this city, only second to Delhi. He was attacked in 1193 (A.D.) by Shihabu-d-din, after his conquest of the Chauhan, driven from his kingdom, and found a watery grave in the Ganges. [The battle was fought at Chandāwar in the Etāwa District, A.D. 1194 (Smith, EHI, 385).]
[23]. Jagnakh had two villages conferred upon him, besides an elephant and a dress.
[24]. [Compare Iliad, xii. 237 ff.]
[25]. The phenicopteros. [The great crane, Grus antigone.]
[26]. A large red duck, the emblem of fidelity with the Rajputs. [The Brahmani duck, Anas casarca.]