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
See _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. p. 227. [Rāja
Munja of Mālwa reigned A.D. 974-995. The famous Bhoja, his nephew, not
his son, 1018-60 (Smith, _EHI_, 395).]
Footnote 2.7.45:
Which will be given in the _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic
Society_.
Footnote 2.7.46:
S. 770, or A.D. 714.
Footnote 2.7.47:
“When the Pramar of Tilang took sanctuary with Har, to the thirty-six
tribes he made gifts of land. To Kehar he gave Katehr, to Rae Pahar
the coast of Sind, to the heroes of the shell the forest lands. Ram
Pramar of Tilang, the Chakravartin lord of Ujjain, made the gift. He
bestowed Delhi on the Tuars, and Patan on the Chawaras; Sambhar on the
Chauhans, and Kanauj on the Kamdhuj; Mardes on the Parihar, Sorath on
the Jadon, the Deccan on Jawala, and Cutch on the Charan” (_Poems of
Chand_). [This is an invention of the courtly bard.]
Footnote 2.7.48:
The inscription gives S. 1100 (A.D. 1044) for the third Bhoj: and this
date agrees with the period assigned to this prince in an ancient
Chronogrammatic Catalogue of reigns embracing all the Princes of the
name of Bhoj, which may therefore be considered authentic. This
authority assigns S. 631 and 721 (or A.D. 575 and 665) to the first
and second Bhoj.
Footnote 2.7.49:
Herbert has a curious story of Chitor being called Taxila; thence the
story of the Ranas being sons of Porus. I have an inscription from a
temple on the Chambal, within the ancient limits of Mewar, which
mentions Takshasilanagara, ‘the stone fort of the Tak,’ but I cannot
apply it. The city of Toda (Tonk, or properly Tanka) is called in the
Chauhan chronicles, Takatpur. [Takshasila, the Taxila of the Greeks,
the name meaning ‘the hewn rock,’ or more probably, ‘the rock of
Taksha,’ the Nāga king, is the modern Shāhderi in the Rāwalpindi
District, Panjāb (_IGI_, xxii. 200 f.).]
Footnote 2.7.50:
Of the Sodha tribe, a grand division of the Pramaras, and who held all
the desert regions in remote times. Their subdivisions, Umra and
Sumra, gave the names to Umarkot and Umrasumra, in which was the
insular Bakhar, on the Indus: so that we do not misapply etymology,
when we say in Sodha we have the Sogdoi of Alexander.
Footnote 2.7.52:
See _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. p. 133,
‘Comments on a Sanskrit Inscription.’
Footnote 2.7.53:
Asura-Daitya, which Titans were either the aboriginal Bhils or the
Scythic hordes.
Footnote 2.7.54:
I have visited this classic spot in Hindu mythology. An image of
Adipal (the ‘first-created’), in marble, still adorns its embankment,
and is a piece of very fine sculpture. It was too sacred a relic to
remove.
Footnote 2.7.55:
‘Portal or door (_dwar_) of the earth’; contracted to Prithihara and
Parihara.
Footnote 2.7.56:
‘The first striker.’
Footnote 2.7.57:
[In the Hāra version of the legend the presiding priest is
Visvāmitra.]
Footnote 2.7.58:
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