[5]. I have never had time to learn the purport of this inscription, but hold it, together with a host of others, at the service of those who desire to expound them. For myself, without my old Guru, I am like a ship without helm or compass (as Chand would say) “in ploughing the ocean of (Sanskrit) rhyme.” [Both these inscriptions are dated A.D. 1170. That recording the Chauhān genealogy is printed (p. [1456]). The other is a Jain poem called Unnāthshikar Purān, still unpublished (Erskine ii. A. 100).]
[6]. [‘Those whose robe is the atmosphere,’ the ‘naked’ section of the Jains (Bühler-Burgess, The Indian Sect of the Jainas, 2).]
[7]. See Transactions Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i. p. 152.
[8]. [Menāl possesses a monastery and Saiva temple constructed, according to the inscriptions which they bear, in A.D. 1169 by Bhav Brahm, Sādhu; also a palace and temple built a year earlier by the wife of the famous Prithirāj, Chauhān, whose name was Suhav Devi, known as Rūthi Rāni, ‘the testy queen’ (Erskine ii. A. 95, quoting H. Cousens, Progress Report Archaeological Survey W. India, for the year ending June 30, 1905)[1905)].]
[9]. Āsā, is literally, ‘Hope.’
[10]. Goddess of the race.
[11]. ‘The wealth of the bee’; such are the metaphorical appellations amongst the Rajputs.
[12]. This is the prince who crawled to Kedarnath (see p. 1463), and son of Rainsi, the emigrant prince from Asir, who is perhaps here designated as ‘the wealth of the bee.’ This was in S. 1353, or A.D. 1297.
[13]. Jaipal (‘fosterer of victory’) must be the prince familiarly called Bango in the Annals (p. [1464]), and not the grandson but the son of Kulan—there said to have taken Menal or Mahanal.
[14]. Dewa is the son of Banga (p. 1464), and founder of Bundi, in S. 1398, or A.D. 1342.