Abu-l Fazl uses this expression when moralizing on the fall of Shihabu-d-din, king of Ghazni and first established monarch of India, slain by Prithwiraja, the Hindu sovereign of Delhi [_Āīn_, ii. 302]. [Muhammad Ghori, Shihābu-d-dīn, was murdered on the road to Ghazni by a fanatic of the Mulāhidah sect, in March, A.D. 1206 (_Tabakāt-ī-Nāsiri_, in Elliot-Dowson ii. 297, 235). According to the less probable account of Ferishta (Briggs, i. 185), he was murdered at Rohtak by a gang of Gakkhars or rather Khokhars (Rose, _Glossary_, ii. 275).] Footnote 3.5.18: The Rajput, who possesses but an acre of land, has the proud feeling of common origin with his sovereign, and in styling him _bapji_ (sire), he thinks of him as the common father or representative of the race. What a powerful incentive to action! Footnote 3.5.19: Aurangzeb. Footnote 3.5.20: Raja Man of Jaipur, who took Arakan, Orissa, and Assam. Raja Jaswant Singh of Marwar retook Kabul for Aurangzeb, and was rewarded by poison. Raja Ram Singh Hara, of Kotah, made several important conquests; and his grandson, Raja Isari Singh, and his five brothers, were left on one field of battle. Footnote 3.5.21: When a Rajput is determined to hold out to the last in fighting, he always puts on a robe dyed in saffron. [This was the common practice, saffron being the colour of the bridal robe (Malcolm, _Memoir of Central India_, 2nd ed. i. 358; Grant Duff, _Hist. of the Mahrattas_, 317; Forbes, _Rāsmālā_, 408).] Footnote 3.5.22: Sindhia. ----- APPENDIX =PAPERS REFERRED TO IN THE SKETCH OF A FEUDAL SYSTEM IN RAJASTHAN= BEING LITERAL TRANSLATIONS _from_ INSCRIPTIONS _and_ ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, _most of which are in the_ AUTHOR’S POSSESSION No. I _Translation of a Letter from the expatriated Chiefs[3.a.1] of Marwar to the Political Agent of the British Government, Western Rajput States._ After compliments. We have sent to you a confidential person, who will relate what regards us. The Sarkar Company are sovereigns of Hindustan, and you know well all that regards our condition. Although there is nothing which respects either ourselves or our country hid from you, yet is there matter immediately concerning us which it is necessary to make known.