The wild fable which envelops or adorns the cradle of every illustrious family is not easily disentangled. The bards weave the web with skill, and it clings like ivy round each modern branch, obscuring the aged stem, in the time-worn branches of which monsters and demi-gods are perched, whose claims of affinity are held in high estimation by these ‘children of the sun,’ who would deem it criminal to doubt that the loin-robe (_dhoti_) of their great founder, Bapa Rawal, was less than five hundred cubits in circumference, that his two-edged sword (_khanda_), the gift of the Hindu Proserpine, weighed an ounce less than sixty-four pounds, or that he was an inch under twenty feet in height. Footnote 4.1.23: [Vijayapur has been doubtfully identified with Bījapur in the Ahmadābād district (_BG_, i. Part i. 110).] Footnote 4.1.24: Presented to the Royal Asiatic Society of London. Footnote 4.1.25: Sorath or Saurashtra. Footnote 4.1.26: The ‘lord of Bal.’ Footnote 4.1.27: Mārwār. Footnote 4.1.28: [The date of the fall of Valabhi is very uncertain (Smith, _EHI_, 315, note). It is said to have been destroyed in the reign of Sīlāditya VI., the last of the dynasty, about A.D. 776 (Duff, _Chronology of India_, 31, 67, 308).] Footnote 4.1.29: [There is possibly a confusion with the Soras of Aelian (xv. 8) which has been identified by Caldwell (_Dravidian Grammar_, 17) with the Σῶραι of Ptolemy, and with the Chola kingdom of Southern India. Surāshtra or Saurāshtra, ‘land of the Sus,’ was afterwards Sanskritized into ‘goodly country’ (Monier Williams, _Skt. Dict._ s.v.; _BG_, i. Part i. 6).] Footnote 4.1.30: Gaini, or Gajni, is one of the ancient names of Cambay (the port of Valabhipura), the ruins of which are about three miles from the modern city. Other sources indicate that these princes held possessions in the southern continent of India, as well as in the Saurashtra peninsula. Talatalpur Patan, on the Godavari, is mentioned, which tradition asserts to be the city of Deogir; but which, after many years’ research, I discovered in Saurashtra, it being one of the ancient names of Kandala. In after times, when succeeding dynasties held the title of Balakarae, though the capital was removed inland to Anhilwara Patan, they still held possession of the western shore, and Cambay continued the chief port. [For the identification of Gajni with Cambay see _IA_, iv. 147; _BG_, vi. 213 note. The site of Devagiri has been identified with Daulatābād (_BG_, i. Part ii. 136; Beal, _Buddhist Records of the Western World_, ii. 255, note).] Footnote 4.1.31: