Though now desolate, the walls of this fortress attest its antiquity, and it is a work that could not be undertaken in this degenerate age. The remains of it bring to mind those of Volterra or Cortona, and other ancient cities of Tuscany: enormous squared masses of stone without any cement. [For a full account of Mandor, see Erskine iii. _A._ 196 ff.] Footnote 2.7.92: This was in the thirteenth century [A.D. 1381], when Mandor was captured, and its prince slain, by the Rawal of Chitor. Footnote 2.7.93: [Six sub-clans are named in _Census Report, Rajputana, 1911_, i. 255.] Footnote 2.7.94: [They have been supposed to be a branch of the Pramārs, but they are certainly of Gurjara origin (_IA_, iv. 145 f.; _BG_, ix. Part i. 124, 488 f.; i. Part i. 149 ff.). According to Wilberforce-Bell, the word Chaura in Gujarāt means ‘robber’ (_History of Kathiawad_, 51).] Footnote 2.7.95: The Σύροι of the Greek writers on Bactria, the boundary of the Bactrian kingdom under Apollodotus. On this see the paper on Grecian medals in the _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. Footnote 2.7.96: Many of the inhabitants of the south and west of India cannot pronounce the _ch_, and invariably substitute the _s_. Thus the noted Pindari leader Chitu was always called Situ by the Deccanis. Again, with many of the tribes of the desert, the _s_ is alike a stumbling-block, which causes many singular mistakes, when Jaisalmer, the ‘hill of Jaisal,’ becomes Jahlmer, ‘the hill of fools.’ Footnote 2.7.97: [The Balhara of Arab travellers of the tenth century were the Rashtrakūta dynasty of Mālkhed, Balhara being a corruption of Vallabharāja, Vallabha being the royal title (_BG_, i. Part ii. 209).] Footnote 2.7.98: [Vanarāja reigned from A.D. 765 to 780, and the dynasty is said to have lasted 196 years, but the evidence is still incomplete. The name of Bhojrāj does not appear in the most recent lists (_BG_, i. Part i. 152 ff.).] Footnote 2.7.99: _Rélations anciennes des Voyageurs_, par Renaudot. Footnote 2.7.100: [The true form of this puzzling term seems to be Dābshalīm, whose story is told in Elliot-Dowson (ii. 500 ff., iv. 183). Much of the account is mere tradition, but it has been plausibly suggested that when Bhīma I., the Chaulukya king of Anhilwāra was defeated by Mahmūd of Ghazni in A.D. 1024, the latter may have appointed Durlabha, uncle of Bhīma, to keep order in Gujarāt, and that the two Dābshalīms may be identified with Durlabha and his son (_BG_, i. Part i. 168). Also see Ferishta i. 76; Bayley, _Muhammadan Dynasties of Gujarāt_, 32 ff.] Footnote 2.7.101: