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
_Godhūli_, the dust raised at the time when the cows come home.
Footnote 4.2.16:
On this spot the celebrated temple of Eklinga was erected, and the
present high priest traces sixty-six descents from Harita to himself.
To him (through the Rana) I was indebted for the copy of the Sheo
(_Siva_) Purana presented to the Royal Asiatic Society.
Footnote 4.2.17:
[_Zunnār_ is an Arabic word, the Hindi _janeo_.]
Footnote 4.2.18:
[The sword stolen from Orlando by Brunello, given to Rogero (Ariosto,
_Orlando Furioso_).]
Footnote 4.2.19:
The _Nahra Magra_, seven miles from the eastern pass leading to the
capital, where the prince has a hunting seat surrounded by several
others belonging to the nobles, but all going to decay. The tiger and
wild boar now prowl unmolested, as none of the ‘unlicensed’ dare shoot
in these royal preserves.
Footnote 4.2.20:
They surmise that this is the individual blade which is yet annually
worshipped by the sovereign and chiefs on its appropriate day, one of
the nine sacred to the god of war; a rite completely Scythic. I had
this relation from the chief genealogists of the family, who gravely
repeated the incantation: “By the preceptor, Gorakhnath and the great
god, Eklinga; by Takshka the serpent, and the sage Harita; by Bhavani
(Pallas) strike!”
Footnote 4.2.21:
Bappa’s mother was a Pramar, probably from Abu or Chandravati, near to
Idar; and consequently Bappa was nephew to every Pramar in existence.
[The Morya or Maurya sub-clan of the Pramārs still exists (_Census
Report, Rajputana, 1911_, i. 255). For traces of the Mauryas in W.
India see _BG_, i. Part ii. 284, note.]
Footnote 4.2.22:
We are furnished with a catalogue of the tribes which served the Mori
prince, which is extremely valuable, from its acquainting us with the
names of tribes no longer existing.
Footnote 4.2.23:
[See p. 121, above.]
Footnote 4.2.24:
See _Āīn_, ii. 247, which speaks of fifty thousand [8000] Guhilots in
Sorath.
Footnote 4.2.25:
Pepara Guhilots.
Footnote 4.2.26:
The ‘land of Kher,’ on the south-west frontier of Marwar, near the
Luni river.
Footnote 4.2.27:
The reigning prince told the author that there was no doubt of Bappa
having ended his days among ‘the Turks’: a term now applied to all
Muhammadans by the Hindu, but at that time confined to the inhabitants
of Turkistan, the Turushka of the Puranas, and the Takshak of early
inscriptions.
Footnote 4.2.28:
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