Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
[The correct dates are as follows: Vīsaladeva, middle of 12th century
A.D. (Smith, _EHI_, 386); Jayapāla of Delhi succeeded 1005 (_ASR_, i.
149); Durlabha Chaulukya and Bhīma, respectively 1010-22, 1022-64
(_BG_, i. Part i. 1626); Tej Singh or Tejsi, Rāwal of Chitor about
1260-67 (Erskine ii. B. 10); Bhoja of Mālwa, 1018-60 (Smith, _EHI_,
395).]
Footnote 10.1.64:
This town—another proof of the veracity of the chronicle—yet exists in
Northern Gujarat. [15 miles N. of Baroda. It is doubtful if it takes
its name from Vīsaladeva of Delhi. At any rate, it is said to have
been restored by Vīsaladeva Vāghela (A.D. 1243-61) (_BG_, i. Part i.
203).]
Footnote 10.1.65:
[See p. 1328.] The pickaxe, if applied to this mound (which gives its
name to Dhundhar), might possibly show it to be a place of sepulture,
and that the Chauhans, even to this period, may have entombed at least
the bones of their dead. The numerous tumuli about Haidarabad, the
ancient Gualkund, one of the royal abodes of the Chauhans, may be
sepultures of this race, and the arms and vases they contain all
strengthen my hypothesis of their Scythic origin. [See p. 1445.]
Footnote 10.1.66:
[Grierson, _Modern Literature of Hindustan_, 143, 164.]
Footnote 10.1.67:
Or, as the story goes, his limbs, which lay dissevered, were collected
by Surabhi, and the goddess sprinkling them with ‘the water of life,’
he arose! Hence the name Hara, which his descendants bore, from _har_,
or ‘bones,’ thus collected; but more likely from having lost (_hara_)
Asi. [See p. 1441.]
Footnote 10.1.68:
The Hara chronicle says S. 981, but by some strange, yet uniform
error, all the tribes of the Chauhans antedate their chronicles by a
hundred years. Thus Bisaldeo’s taking possession of Anhilpar Patan is
“nine hundred, fifty, thirty and six” (S. 986), instead of S. 1086.
But it even pervades Chand the poet of Prithiraj, whose birth is made
1115, instead of S. 1215; and here, in all probability, the error
commenced, by the ignorance (wilful we cannot imagine) of some rhymer.
Footnote 10.1.69:
‘The elephant wilds.’ [Skt. _kunjari_, ‘a female elephant,’ _vana_,
Hindi _ban_, ‘forest.’] They assert that Ghazni is properly Gajni,
founded by the Yadus: and in a curious specimen of Hindu geography
(presented by me to the Royal Asiatic Society), all the tract about
the glaciers of the Ganges is termed Kujliban, the ‘Elephant Forest.’
There is a Gajangarh mentioned by Abul-i-fazl in the region of Bajaur,
inhabited by the Sultana, Jadon, and Yusufzai tribes. [This place does
not appear in Jarrett’s translation of the _Āīn_, ii. 391 f.]
Footnote 10.1.70:
See Ferishta i. 75 f. [Mahmūd never reached Golkonda.]
Footnote 10.1.71:
[Horses from the Lākhi jungle; see Vol. II. p. 1156.]
Footnote 10.1.72:
Jangales, ‘lord of the forest lands,’ another of Prithiraj’s titles.
Footnote 10.1.73:
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