caparisoned elephant and horses, which were part of the khilat. At the door of the tent we made our salaam, when the Raja gave me his hand, which, by the by, was his first salutation on receiving me. It is an ancient Rajput custom, and their bards continually allude to extending the right hand—“dextra extenta.” [Illustration: GŪGA THE CHAUHĀN. HARBUJI SĀNKHLA. Rock Sculptures at Mandor. _To face page 848._ ] =Taking Leave of the Rāja.=—_November 17._[4.27.39]—I went to take leave of the Raja: I had a long and interesting conversation on this our last interview. I left him in the full expectation that his energy of character would surmount the difficulties by which he was surrounded, though not without a struggle, and condign punishment to some of the miscreants, the misleaders of his son, the assassins of his minister and high priest, and consequently the authors of his humiliating and protracted incarceration [735]. Whether the first gratification of vengeance provoked his appetite, or whether the torrent of his rage, once impelled into motion, became too impetuous to be checked, so that his reason was actually disturbed by the sufferings he had undergone, it is certain he grew a demoniac; nor could any one, who had conversed with the bland, the gentlemanly, I might say gentle, Raja Man, have imagined that he concealed under this exterior a heart so malignant as his subsequent acts evinced. But the day of retribution must arrive; the men who wrote that dignified remonstrance, which is given in another place,[4.27.40] will not tamely bear their wrongs, and as they dare not levy war against their prince, who reposes under British protection, the dagger will doubtless find a way to reach him even in “the thousand-columned hall” of Jodhpur. Besides the usual gifts at parting, which are matter of etiquette, and remain untouched by the individual, I accepted as a personal token of his favour, a sword, dagger, and buckler, which had belonged to one of his illustrious ancestors. The weight of the sword, which had often been “the angel of death,” would convince any one that it must have been a nervous arm which carried it through a day. With mutual good wishes, and a request for a literary correspondence, which was commenced but soon closed, I bade adieu to Raja Man and the capital of Marwar [736]. ----- Footnote 4.27.1: [Of Jagat Singh of Jaipur and Amīr Khān.] Footnote 4.27.2: [_Rahkala_ is properly the carriage on which a field-piece is mounted: then, a swivel-gun (Irvine, _Army of the Indian Moghuls_, 140).] Footnote 4.27.3: [The population of the city in 1911 was 79,756.] Footnote 4.27.4: _Amrit ra piyala._ Footnote 4.27.5: See p. 820. Footnote 4.27.6: [‘The self-existent.’] Footnote 4.27.7: [The Rāthor dynasty of Kanauj is a myth (Smith, _EHI_, 385, note 1).] Footnote 4.27.8: [_Decline and Fall_, ed. W. Smith, ii. 262.] Footnote 4.27.9: