Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
[A Tonwar or Tuar Rājput, of the family of Anangpāl of Delhi, now
worshipped under the name of Rāmsāh Pīr.]
Footnote 4.27.29:
[A Panwār Rājput, of Bengti, near Phalodi, where his cart is still
worshipped.]
Footnote 4.27.30:
[Gūgaji or Guggaji, already mentioned (p. 807 above), said to have
been killed in battle with Fīroz Shāh of Delhi, at the end of the
thirteenth century A.D.]
Footnote 4.27.31:
I imagine the word _kula_, or ‘race,’ of which, as often remarked,
there are not thirty-three but thirty-six, has given rise to the
assertion respecting the thirty-three crore or millions of gods of
Hindustan [more probably only an indefinite number].
Footnote 4.27.32:
Thermometer 55°, 72°, 86°, 80° at daybreak, ten, two, and at sunset;
on the 3rd November, the day of our arrival, the variations were 50°,
72°, 80°, and 75° at those hours.
Footnote 4.27.33:
[_Michelia champaka._]
Footnote 4.27.34:
[The double jasmine, _Jasminum zambak_.]
Footnote 4.27.35:
[Sir D. Prain, who has kindly investigated this flower, identifies it
with a species of _Bauhinia_. He remarks that “_B. acuminata_, which
differs from _B. purpurea_ and _B. variegata_, both in being a smaller
plant and in beginning to flower when _B. variegata_ does, goes on
flowering all through the rains, and still continues to flower when
_B. purpurea_ is in blossom. It does not flower all the year round in
Bengal, and I doubt if it does so in Rājputāna, though Balfour in his
_Cyclopaedia_ suggests that it does so. My idea is that the term
_bārah-māsha_ in Upper India should not be taken too literally, and
that it is only a figurative way of saying that the particular
_Bauhinia_ is in flower alongside of both the others when flowering
seasons are separated by half the year.”]
Footnote 4.27.36:
See the Autobiography of Jahangir, translated by that able Oriental
scholar, Major Price [p. 96 f.], for the astonishing feats these
jugglers perform in creating not only the tree but the fruit.
Footnote 4.27.37:
[The Atīt is a mendicant follower of Siva, and the term is usually
equivalent to Sannyāsi.]
Footnote 4.27.38:
Thermometer 59°, 82°, 85°, 79°.
Footnote 4.27.39:
Thermometer 59°, 73°, 89°, 82°; at six, ten, two, and sunset.
Footnote 4.27.40:
See Vol. I. p. 228.
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