The Raja says he finished his tables in A.D. 1728, and that he had occupied himself seven years previously in the necessary observations; in fact, the first quiet years of Muhammad Shah’s reign, or indeed that India had known for centuries. Footnote 9.2.13: [In Mālwa (_IGI_, xxi. 34).] Footnote 9.2.14: [Kamaru-d-dīn, Mīr Muhammad Fāzil, son of Itmādu-d-daula, Muhammad Amīn Khān Wazīr, was appointed to that office A.D. 1724: killed at Sarhind, March 11, 1728.] Footnote 9.2.15: [Forty-five miles N.N.W. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.2.16: [‘Brother by exchange of turbans.’ Khāndaurān Khān, Abdu-l-Samad Khān, governor of Lahore and Multān, died A.D. 1739.] Footnote 9.2.17: The Nazir is here harping on three of the four predicaments which (borrowed originally from Manu [_Laws_, viii. 159, 165, 168], and repeated by the great Rajput oracle, the bard Chand) govern all human events, _sham_, _dan_, _bhed_, _dand_, ‘arguments, gifts, stratagem, force.’ Footnote 9.2.18: He is the hereditary premier noble of this house (as is Salumbar of Mewar, and the Awa chief of Marwar), and is familiarly called the ‘Patel of Amber.’ His residence is Chaumun, which is the place of rendezvous of the feudality of Amber, whenever they league against the sovereign. Footnote 9.2.19: [An appeal to the deities Rāma and his wife Sīta.] Footnote 9.2.20: _Lalji_ is an epithet of endearment used by all classes of Hindus towards their children, from the Sanskrit _lal_, _lad_, ‘to sport.’ Footnote 9.2.21: [A state litter, generally used by ladies of the Court.] Footnote 9.2.22: I have made a _verbatim_ translation of this _gun_. Footnote 9.2.23: This is a singular instance of making the privative an affix instead of prefix; _a-gun_, ‘without virtue,’ would be the common form. [(?) _guna_ may mean ‘virtue,’ or the reverse (Monier-Williams, _Sanskrit Dict._ s.v.; _Brāhmanism and Hinduism_, 4th ed. 30).] Footnote 9.2.24: [Both now in Mācheri of the Alwar State.] Footnote 9.2.25: [Thirty miles E. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.2.26: [Now in Mācheri, Alwar State.] Footnote 9.2.27: [‘The twenty-two,’ a term originally applied to the Mughal army, because it was supposed to contain twenty-two lakhs of men. The twenty-two nobles of Jaipur were a later creation.] Footnote 9.2.28: A litter, literally 'seat (_asan_) of ease (_sukh_).' Footnote 9.2.29: [_Bhābhi_, ‘sister-in-law.’] Footnote 9.2.30: The descendants of this chieftain still occupy lands at Anupshahr. Footnote 9.2.31: [The betel leaf eaten before battle.] Footnote 9.2.32: [About 20 miles N. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.2.33: [See Vol. II. p. 665.] Footnote 9.2.34: Rajor is esteemed a place of great antiquity, and the chief seat of the Bargujar tribe for ages, a tribe mentioned with high respect in the works of the bard Chand, and celebrated in the wars of Prithiraj. I sent a party to Rajor in 1813.