Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
A prince of Bundi had married a Rajputni of the Malani tribe, a name
now unknown: but a bard repeating the ‘gotracharya,’ it was discovered
to have been about eight centuries before a ramification (sakha) of
the Chauhan, to which the Hara of Bundi belonged—divorce and expiatory
rites, with great unhappiness, were the consequences. What a contrast
to the unhallowed doctrines of polyandry, as mentioned amongst the
Pandavas, the Scythic nations, the inhabitants of Sirmor of the
present day, and pertaining even to Britain in the days of
Caesar!—“Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes,” says that
accurate writer, speaking of the natives of this island; “et maximè
fratres cum fratribus, parentesque cum liberis: sed si qui sint ex his
nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.”
Footnote 2.7.7:
_Aparam sakham_, ‘of innumerable branches,’ is inscribed on an ancient
tablet of the Guhilot race.
Footnote 2.7.8:
_Got_, _khanp_, denote a clan; its subdivisions have the patronymic
terminating with the syllable ‘_ot_,’ ‘_awat_,’ ‘_sot_,’ in the use of
which euphony alone is their guide: thus, _Saktawat_, ‘sons of Sakta’;
_Kurmasot_, ‘of Kurma’; _Mairawat_, or _mairot_, mountaineers, ‘sons
of the mountains.’ Such is the Greek _Mainote_, from _maina_, a
mountain, in the ancient Albanian dialect, of eastern origin.
Footnote 2.7.9:
From _agni_ (_qu._ _ignis?_) ‘fire,’ the sons of Vulcan, as the others
of Sol and Luna, or Lunus, to change the sex of the parent of the Indu
(moon) race.
Footnote 2.7.10:
_Vansavali, Suryavansi Rajkuli Rana Chitor ka Dhani, Chhattis Kuli
Sengar._—MSS. from the Rana’s library, entitled _Khuman Raesa_.
Footnote 2.7.11:
Always conjoined with Vairat—‘Vijayapur Vairatgarh.’ [Vairāt forty-one
miles north of Jaipur city. The reference in the text is merely a
bardic fable, there being no connexion between Vijaya and this place
(_ASR_, ii. 249).]
Footnote 2.7.12:
A.D. 319. The inscription recording this, as well as others relating
to Valabhi and this era, I discovered in Saurashtra, as well as the
site of this ancient capital, occupying the position of ‘Byzantium’ in
Ptolemy’s geography of India. They will be given in the _Transactions_
of the Royal Asiatic Society. [The Valabhi agrees with the Gupta era
(Smith, _EHI_, 20).]
Footnote 2.7.13:
Anandpur Ahar, or ‘Ahar the city of repose.’ By the tide of events,
the family was destined to fix their last capital, Udaipur, near Ahar.
Footnote 2.7.14:
The middle of the eighth century.
Footnote 2.7.15:
[Or Maurya], a Pramara prince.
Footnote 2.7.16:
[For a different list, see _Census Report, Rajputana, 1911_, i. 256.]
Footnote 2.7.17:
The place where they found refuge was in the cluster of hills still
called _Yadu ka dang_, ‘the Yadu hills’:—the _Joudes_ of Rennell’s
geography [see p. 75 above].
Footnote 2.7.18:
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