[The twelve-tined deer, _Cervus duvanceli_; _Boselaphus tragocamelus_ (Blanford, _Mammalia_, 538, 517 ff.).] Footnote 10.2.21: The Author has seen the cenotaphs of the princes at Nanta, a place which still affords good hunting. Footnote 10.2.22: Four of these had appanages and founded clans, namely, Bhim, who had Thakurda; Pura, who had Hardoi; Mapal and Pachain, whose abodes are not recorded. Footnote 10.2.23: See Vol. I. p. 361. Footnote 10.2.24: _Sor ne kiya bahut jor Dhar parbat ori silla; Tain kari tarwār Ad pātiya, Hāra Uja._[10.2.24.A] Footnote 10.2.24.A: Uja, the familiar contraction for Arjuna. Footnote 10.2.25: Ram Singh, clan Rama Hara; Akhairaj, clan Akhairajpota; Kandhal, clan Jasa Hara. ----- CHAPTER 3 =Rāo Surjan, A.D. 1554.=—With Rao Surjan commenced a new era for Bundi.[10.3.1] Hitherto her princes had enjoyed independence, excepting the homage and occasional service on emergencies which are maintained as much from kinship as vassalage. But they were now about to move in a more extended orbit, and to occupy a conspicuous page in the future history of the empire of India. Sawant Singh, a junior branch of Bundi, upon the expulsion of the Shershahi dynasty, entered into a correspondence with the Afghan governor of Ranthambhor, which terminated in the surrender of this celebrated fortress, which he delivered up to his superior, the Rao Surjan. For this important service, which obtained a castle and possession far superior to any under Bundi, lands were assigned near the city to Sawantji, whose name became renowned, and was transmitted as the head of the clan, Sawant-Hara. The Chauhan chief of Bedla,[10.3.2] who was mainly instrumental to the surrender of this famed fortress, stipulated that it should be held by Rao Surjan, as a fief of Mewar. Thus Ranthambhor, which for ages was an appanage of Ajmer, and continued until the fourteenth century in a branch of the family descended from Bisaldeo, when it was [472] captured from the valiant Hamir[10.3.3] after a desperate resistance, once more reverted to the Chauhan race.