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
_Chatur_; _anga_, ‘body’ [_chaturbāhu_].
Footnote 2.7.59:
_Asa_, ‘hope,’ _purna_, to ‘fulfil’; whence the tutelary goddess of
the Chauhan race, Asapurna.
Footnote 2.7.60:
The goddess of energy (_Sakti_).
Footnote 2.7.61:
[Cunningham points out that in the original story only the Chauhān was
created from the fire-pit, the reference to other clans being a later
addition (_ASR_, ii. 255).]
Footnote 2.7.62:
Born in S. 1215, or A.D. 1159. [Anhala or Agnipāla is here the head of
the Chauhān line; but a different list appears in the _Hammīra
Mahākāvya_ of Nayachhandra Sūri (_IA_, viii. 55 ff.).]
Footnote 2.7.63:
[Ajmer is commonly said to have been founded by Rāja Aja, A.D. 145. It
was founded by Ajayadeva Chauhān about A.D. 1100 (_IA_, xxv. 162 f.).]
Footnote 2.7.64:
A name derived from the goddess Sakambhari, the tutelary divinity of
the tribes, whose statue is in the middle of the lake.
Footnote 2.7.65:
Dharma Dhiraj, father of Bisaladeva, must have been the defender on
this occasion.
Footnote 2.7.66:
[Muhammad bin Kāsim seems to have marched along the Indus valley, not
in the direction of Ajmer (Malik Muhammad Din, _Bahawalpur Gazetteer_,
i. 28).]
Footnote 2.7.67:
[This is doubtful. Maudūd seems to have not come further south than
Siālkot (Al Badaoni, _Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh_, i. 49; Elliot-Dowson ii.
273, iv. 139 f., 199 f., v. 160 f.).]
Footnote 2.7.68:
[The author has barely noticed the Khīchis; for an account of them see
_ASR_, ii. 249 ff.]
Footnote 2.7.69:
About Fatehpur Jhunjhunu.
Footnote 2.7.70:
[For a different list see _Rajputana Census Report, 1911_, i. 255.]
Footnote 2.7.71:
[The Chalukya is a Gurjara tribe, the name being the Sanskritized form
of the old dynastic title, Chalkya, of the Deccan dynasty (A.D.
552-973); and of this Solanki is a dialectical variant (_IA_, xi. 24;
_BG_, i. Part i. 156, Part ii. 336).]
Footnote 2.7.72:
Solanki Gotracharya is thus: “Madhwani Sakha—Bharadwaja Gotra—Garh
Lohkot nikas—Sarasvati Nadi (river)—Sama Veda—Kapaliswar Deva—Karduman
Rikheswar—Tin Parwar Zunar (zone of three threads)—Keonj Devi—Mahipal
Putra (one of the Penates).” [Lohkot is Lohara in Kashmīr (Stein,
_Rājatarangini_, i. Introd. 108, ii. 293 ff.).]
Footnote 2.7.73:
Called Malkhani, being the sons of Mal Khan, the first apostate from
his faith to Islamism. Whether these branches of the Solankis were
compelled to quit their religion, or did it voluntarily, we know not.
Footnote 2.7.74:
Near Bombay. [In Thana District, not Malabar coast.]
Footnote 2.7.75:
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