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
_Eclaircissemens Géographiques sur la Carte de l’Inde_, p. 43 [Smith,
_EHI_, 315 ff.].
Footnote 2.7.130:
An orthography which more assimilates with the Hindu pronunciation of
the name Huon, or Oun, than Hun.
Footnote 2.7.131:
The same bard says that there are three or four houses of these Huns
at Trisawi, three coss from Baroda; and the Khichi bard, Moghji, says
their traditions record the existence of many powerful Hun princes in
India. [On the Huns in W. India see _BG_, i. Part i. 122 ff. The
difficulty in the text is now removed by the proof that many of them
became Rājputs.]
Footnote 2.7.132:
The late Captain Macmurdo, whose death was a loss to the service and
to literature, gives an animated account of the habits of the Kathi.
His opinions coincide entirely with my own regarding this race. See
vol. i. p. 270, _Trans. Soc. of Bombay_. [For accounts of the Kāthi
see _BG_, ix. Part i. 252 ff., viii. 122 ff. Under the Mahrattas
Kāthiāwār, the name of the Kāthi tract, was extended to the whole of
Saurāshtra (Wilberforce-Bell, _Hist. of Kathiawad_, 132 f.).]
Footnote 2.7.133:
It is needless to particularise them here. In the poems of Chand, some
books of which I have translated and purpose giving to the public, the
important part the Kathi had assigned to them will appear.
Footnote 2.7.134:
[In the form of a symbol like a spider, the rays forming the legs
(_BG_, ix. Part i. 257).]
Footnote 2.7.135:
It is the Rajput of Kathiawar, not of Rajasthan, to whom Captain
Macmurdo alludes.
Footnote 2.7.136:
Of their personal appearance, and the blue eye indicative of their
Gothic or Getic origin, the author will have occasion to speak more
particularly in his personal narrative.
Footnote 2.7.137:
‘Princes of Tatta and Multan.’
Footnote 2.7.138:
[The origin of the Bālas is not certain: they were probably Gurjaras
(_Ibid._ 495 f.).]
Footnote 2.7.139:
[Chotila in Kāthiāwār (_BG_, viii. 407).]
Footnote 2.7.140:
His son, Madho Singh, the present administrator, is the offspring of
the celebrated Zalim and a Ranawat chieftain’s daughter, which has
entitled his (Madho Singh’s) issue to marry far above their scale in
rank. So much does superiority of blood rise above all worldly
considerations with a Rajput, that although Zalim Singh held the reins
of the richest and best ordered State of Rajasthan, he deemed his
family honoured by his obtaining to wife for his grandson the daughter
of a Kachhwaha minor chieftain.
Footnote 2.7.141:
[Ghumli in the Barda hills, about 40 miles east of Porbandar
(Wilberforce-Bell, _Hist. of Kathiawad_, 49 f.; _BG_, viii. 440).]
Footnote 2.7.142:
[The terms Kamār and Kamāri seem to have disappeared.]
Footnote 2.7.143:
A compound word from goh, ‘strength’; Ila, ‘the earth.’ [This is out
of the question: cf. Guhilot.]
Footnote 2.7.144:
[For Kher, ‘the cradle of the Rathors,’ see Erskine iii. _A._ 199.]
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