Footnote 1.48: I do not repeat the names of towns forming the arrondissements of the various States; they are distinctly laid down in the boundary lines of each. Footnote 1.49: Thal is the general term for the sand ridges of the desert. [Skr. _sthala_, ‘firm ground.’] Footnote 1.50: Most probably a corruption of _aranya_, or desert; [or _irina_, _īrina_, ‘desert, salt soil’], so that the Greek mode of writing it is more correct than the present. Footnote 1.51: [The area of the Rann is about 9000 square miles: its length 150, breadth, 60 miles. Bhuj lies inland, not on the banks of the Rann.] Footnote 1.52: It is here the wild ass (_gorkhar_) roams at large, untamable as in the day of the Arabian Patriarch of Uz, “whose house I have made the wilderness, the barren land (or, according to the Hebrew, _salt places_), his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver” (Job xxxix. 6, 7). Footnote 1.53: Purwa. Footnote 1.54: I have beheld it from the top of the ruined fortress of Hissar with unlimited range of vision, no object to diverge its ray, save the miniature forests; the entire circle of the horizon a chain of more than fancy could form of palaces, towers, and these airy ‘pillars of heaven’ terminating in turn their ephemeral existence. But in the deserts of Dhat and Umrasumra, where the shepherds pasture their flocks, and especially where the alkaline plant is produced, the stratification is more horizontal, and produces more of the watery deception. It is this illusion to which the inspired writer refers, when he says, “the mock pool of the desert shall become real water” [Isaiah xxv. 7]. The inhabitants of the desert term it _Chitram_, literally ‘the picture,’ by no means an unhappy designation. Footnote 1.55: _Sehraie_ [in the text], from _sahra_, ‘desert.’ Hence Sarrazin, or Saracen, is a corruption from _sahra_, ‘desert,’ and _zadan_, ‘to strike,’ contracted. _Rāhzani_, ‘to strike on the road’ (_rāh_). _Rāhbar_, ‘on the road,’ corrupted by the Pindaris to _labar_, the designation of their forays. [The true name is Sahariya, which has been connected with that of the Savara, a tribe in Eastern India. Saracen comes to us from the late Latin _Saraceni_, of which the origin is unknown; it cannot be derived from the Arabic _Sharqi_, ‘eastern’ (see _New English Dictionary_, _s.v._).] Footnote 1.56: The confluent arms or sources of the Indus. ----- BOOK II HISTORY OF THE RĀJPUT TRIBES CHAPTER 1