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
Footnote a4.20.4.A:
To distinguish them from grants of land to feudal tenants, which
patents (_patta_) are manuscript.
Footnote a4.20.4.B:
[He defeated Mihiragula, leader of the White Huns, about A.D. 528
(Smith, _EHI_, 318).]
Footnote 4.20a.5:
[The sacred basil plant, _Ocymum sanctum_.]
Footnote 4.20a.6:
A _khal_ is one of the heaps after the corn is thrashed out, about
_five maunds_ [400 lbs.].
Footnote 4.20a.7:
The _gadha-ghal_ is a punishment unknown in any but the Hindu code;
the hieroglyphic import appears on the pillar, and must be seen to be
understood.
Footnote 4.20a.8:
Revenue officers.
Footnote 4.20a.9:
Literally ‘immortal,’ from _mara_, ‘death,’ and the privative prefix.
Footnote 4.20a.10:
Schools or colleges of the Yatis.
Footnote 4.20a.11:
Priests of the Jains.
Footnote 4.20a.12:
_Kunchi_ and _mutthi_ are both a ‘handful’; the first is applied to
grain in the stalk at harvest time; the other to such edibles in
merchandise as sugar, raisins, etc., collectively termed _kirana_.
Footnote 4.20a.13:
_Rikh_[_rishi_] is an ancient title applied to the highest class of
priests; _Rikh-Rikhsha-Rikhiswara_, applied to royalty in old times.
Footnote 4.20a.14:
_Adhan_ is the richest land, lying under the protection of the town
walls; _mal_ or _maleti_ land is land not irrigated from wells.
Footnote 4.20a.15:
In all a hundred and twenty bighas, or about forty acres.
Footnote 4.20a.16:
[For the annual Jain retreat see p. 606, above.]
Footnote 4.20a.17:
The chief of Delwara.
Footnote 4.20a.18:
There are other grants later than this, which prove that all grants
were renewed in every new reign. This grant also proves that no chief
has the power to alienate without his sovereign’s sanction.
Footnote 4.20a.19:
Epithet indicative of the greatness of the deity.
Footnote 4.20a.20:
Here is another proof that the sovereign can only alienate the
revenues (_hasil_); and though everything upon and about the grant,
yet _not the soil_. The _nim-sim_ is almost as powerful an expression
as the old grant to the Rawdons—
“From earth to heaven,
From heaven to hell,
For thee and thine
Therein to dwell.”
Footnote 4.20a.21:
The high-priest.
Footnote 4.20a.22:
All these are royalties, and the Rana was much blamed, even by his
Vaishnava ministers, for sacrificing them even to Kanhaiya.
Footnote 4.20a.23:
Followers of Vishnu, Krishna, or Kanhaiya, chiefly mercantile.
Footnote 4.20a.24:
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