Hume says, “Poets, though they disfigure the most certain history by their fictions, and use strange liberties with truth, when they are the sole historians, as among the Britons, have commonly some foundation for their wildest exaggerations.” The remark is applicable here; for the names which had been mouldering for nine centuries, far from the abode of man, are the same they had worked into their poetical legends. It was at this exact epoch that the arms of Islam, for the first time, crossed the Indus. In the ninety-fifth year of the Hegira,[4.2.34] Muhammad bin Kasim, the general of the Caliph Walid, conquered Sind, and penetrated (according to early Arabian authors) to the Ganges; and although Elmacin mentions only Sind, yet other Hindu States were at this period convulsed from the same cause: witness the overthrow of Manikrae of Ajmer, in the middle of the eighth century, by a foe ‘coming in ships,’ Anjar specified as the point where they landed. If any doubt existed that it was Kasim who advanced to Chitor[4.2.35] and was defeated by Bappa, it was set at rest by finding at this time in Chitor ‘Dahir,[4.2.36] the prince of Debil.’ Abu-l Fazl[4.2.37] records, from Arabian authorities, that Dahir was lord of Sind, and resided at his capital, Debal, the first place captured by Kasim in 95. His miserable end, and the destruction of his house, are mentioned by the historian, and account for the son being found with the Mori prince of Chitor. Nine princes intervened between Bappa and Sakti Kumar, in two centuries (twenty-two years to each reign): just the time which should elapse from the founder, who ‘abandoned his country for Iran,’ in S. 820, or A.D. 764. Having thus established four epochs in the earlier history of the family, viz.—Kanaksen’, A.D. 144; 2, Siladitya, and sack of Valabhi, A.D. 524; 3, Establishment in Chitor and Mewar, A.D. 720; 4, Sakti Kumar, A.D. 1068;[4.2.38] we may endeavour to relieve this narrative by the notices which regard their Persian descent [232]. ----- Footnote 4.2.1: [This corroborates Bhandarkar’s theory that the Guhilots sprang from Nāgar Brāhmans.] Footnote 4.2.2: [This is a folk-etymology to explain the name Guhilot, probably derived from Guha or Guhasena (A.D. 559-67), the fourth and apparently the first great Valabhi monarch (_BG_, i. Part i. 85).] Footnote 4.2.3: [Mandalīka seems to mean ‘ruler of a district’ (_mandal_), (Bayley, _Dynasties of Gujarāt_, 183).] Footnote 4.2.4: [_Āīn_, ii. 268.] Footnote 4.2.5: Fifteen miles south-west of Jharol, in the wildest region in India. [In Gwalior State, _IGI_, viii. 72.] Footnote 4.2.6: Or Nagda, still a place of religious resort, about ten miles north of Udaipur. Here I found several very old inscriptions relative to the family, which preserve the ancient denomination Gohil instead of Gehlot. One of these is about nine centuries old. [The ancient name was Nāgahrida (Erskine ii. A. 106).] Footnote 4.2.7: