││Khatris │ 4 │ 120,000│ 281 ││Brahmans │ 12 │ 312,000│ 606 └│Musalman │ 9 │ 141,400│ 274 │ │ │ │ [438]. ─────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────┴────────── =Ancient Towns.=—We shall conclude the annals of Amber with the names of a few of the ancient towns, in which research may recover something of past days. =Mora.=—Nine coss east of Dausa or Daosa; built by Mordhwaj, a Chauhan Raja. =Abhaner.=—Three coss east of Lalsont; very ancient; capital of a Chauhan sovereignty. =Bangarh.=—Five coss from Tholai; the ruins of an ancient town and castle in the hills, built by the old princes of Dhundhar, prior to the Kachhwahas. =Amargarh.=—Three coss from Kushalgarh; built by the Nagvansa. =Bairat.=[9.8.23]—Three coss from Basai in Macheri, attributed to the Pandus. =Patan= and =Ganipur=.—Both erected by the ancient Tuar kings of Delhi. =Kharar=, or =Khandar=.—Near Ranthambhor. =Utgir.=—On the Chambal. =Amber=, or =Ambikeswara=, a title of Siva, whose symbol is in the centre of a _kund_ or tank in the middle of the old town. The water covers half the _lingam_; and a prophecy prevails, that when it is entirely submerged the State of Amber will perish! There are inscriptions [439]. ----- Footnote 9.8.1: [The area of the Jaipur State, according to the last surveys, is 15,579 square miles.] Footnote 9.8.2: [According to the census of 1911, the population of Jaipur State was 2,636,647, 169 per square mile.] Footnote 9.8.3: [The proportion of Rājputs to the total population was, in 1911, 45 per 1000.] Footnote 9.8.4: [The present order, in numbers, of the castes is—Brāhmans, Jāts, Mīnas, Chamārs, Banias or Mahājans, Gūjars, Rājputs, Mālis. Dhākar Rājputs are found in the Central Ganges-Jumna Duāb, and in Rohilkhand (Elliot, _Supplementary Glossary_, 263). There are now 89,000 Dhākars in Rājputāna. Kirār is a term generally applied in the Panjāb to traders to distinguish them from the Banias of Hindustān, and the name has no connexion with the Kirāta, a forest tribe of E. India (Rose, _Glossary_, ii. 552; Russell, _Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces_, iii. 485 ff.).] Footnote 9.8.5: [The Mīnas are a notorious criminal tribe (M. Kennedy, _Notes on the Criminal Tribes in the Bombay Presidency_, 207 ff.; C. Hervey, _Some Records of Crime_, i. 328 ff.).] Footnote 9.8.6: [In 1911 there were 96,242 Kachhwāhas in Rājputāna, of whom about two-thirds are in Jaipur.] Footnote 9.8.7: [Reference may be made to the artistic industry in brass-work (Hendley, _Jaipur Museum Catalogue_; _Journal Indian Art_, 1886, i. No. 12, 1891, i. No. 11).] Footnote 9.8.8: