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
With the articles of complaint of the vassals of Deogarh and the short
extorted charter, to avoid future cause for such, we may contrast the
following: "Pour avoir une idée du brigandage que les nobles
exerçaient à l’époque où les premieres _chartes_ furent accordées, il
suffit d’en lire quelques-unes, et l’on verra que le seigneur y
disait:—‘Je promets de ne point _voler, extorquer_ les biens et les
meubles des habitans, de les délivrer des _totes_ ou _rapines_, et
autres _mauvaises coutumes_, et de ne plus commettre envers eux
d’exactions.’—En effet, dans ces tems malheureux, vivres, meubles,
chevaux, voitures, dit le savant Abbé de Mably, tout était enlevé par
l’insatiable et aveugle avidité des seigneurs" (Art. ‘Chartres,’
_Dict. de l’Ancien Régime_).
Footnote 3.a.22:
This reply to the remonstrance of his vassals is perfectly similar in
point to the 43rd article of Magna Charta.
Footnote 3.a.23:
Invocations to Ram, Ganesh (god of wisdom), and Eklinga, the
patron-divinity of the Sesodia Guhilots.
Footnote 3.a.24:
The first of the foreign vassals of the Rana’s house. [Bari Sādri,
about 50 miles E.S.E. of Udaipur city, held by the senior noble of
Mewār, a Rājput of the Jhāla sub-sept, styled Rāja of Sādri (Erskine
ii. A. 93).]
Footnote 3.a.25:
A horse furnished by the prince, always replaced when he dies,
therefore called Amar, or immortal.
Footnote 3.a.26:
The grand military festival, when a muster is made of all the Rajput
quotas.
Footnote 3.a.27:
The first of the home-chieftains.
Footnote 3.a.28:
The tail of the wild ox, worn across the saddle-bow.
Footnote 3.a.29:
An umbrella or shade against the sun; from _kiran_, ‘a ray.’
Footnote 3.a.30:
Clan (_got_) of Kesari Singh, one of the great branches of the
Chondawats.
Footnote 3.a.31:
On the left bank of the Chambal.
Footnote 3.a.32:
To explain these double _rekhs_, or estimates, one is the full value,
the other the deteriorated rate.
Footnote 3.a.33:
The bhala, or lance, is the sign-manual of the Salumbar chieftain, as
hereditary premier of the state.
Footnote 3.a.34:
Is a monogram forming the word _Sahai_, being the sign-manual of the
prince.
Footnote 3.a.35:
_Bhanaij_ is sister’s son; as _Bhatija_ is brother’s son. It will be
seen in the Annals, that to support this prince to the succession of
the Jaipur Gaddi, both Mewar and Jaipur were ruined, and the power of
the Deccanis established in both countries.
Footnote 3.a.36:
This is a proof of the value attached to bhum, when granted by the
inhabitants, as the first act of the new proprietor though holding the
whole town from the crown, was to obtain these few bighas as bhum.
After having been sixty years in that family, Amli has been resumed by
the crown: the bhum has remained with the chief.
Footnote 3.a.37:
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