[13]. [Jai Āpa Sindhia succeeded his father, Rānoji Sindhia. His dates are uncertain, but he was probably killed at Nāgor in 1759 (Beale, Dict. Oriental Biography, s.v.; IGI, xii. 421; Grant Duff, Hist. of the Mahrattas, 270).]

[14]. [Antha is not on the Chambal: it is about 25 miles E. of Kotah city.]

[15]. [Ahmad Shāh Durrāni defeated the Marāthas at Pānipat, 7th January 1761.]

[16]. [Near Māngrol, about 40 miles N.E. of Kotah city.]

[17]. It is singular enough, that Zalim Singh was born in the year of Nadir Shah’s invasion, and made his political entrée in that of the Abdali.

[18]. [Dr. Tessitori, whose version has been followed, writes: “The second line is quite wrong, and I should not be surprised if it was made up by Col. Tod’s Pandit. I believe there was some other word in place of tārā.”]

[19]. [See Vols. II. p. [1199], III. p. [1471].]


CHAPTER 6

Mahārāo Gumān Singh, A.D. 1766-71.