=Bālotra, Tīlwāra.=—Balotra, Tilwara, are two celebrated names in the geography of this region, and have an annual fair, as renowned in Rajputana as that of Leipsic in Germany. Though called the Balotra _mela_ (literally, 'an assemblage, or [300] concourse of people'), it was held at Tilwara, several miles south,[8.1.25] near an island of the Luni, which is sanctified by a shrine of Mallinath, ‘the divinity of the Malli,’ who, as already mentioned, is now the patron god of the Rathors. Tilwara forms the fief of another relative of the Mewa family, and Balotra, which ought to belong to the fisc, did and may still belong to Awa, the chief noble of Marwar. But Balotra and Sandri have other claims to distinction, having, with the original estate of Dunara, formed the fief of Durgadas, the first character in the annals of Maru, and whose descendant yet occupies Sandri. The fief of Mewa, which includes them all, was rated at fifty thousand rupees annually. The Pattayats with their vassalage occasionally go to court, but hold themselves exempt from service except on emergencies. The call upon them is chiefly for the defence of the frontier, of which they are the Simiswara, or lord-marchers. =Īndhāvati.=—This tract, which has its name from the Rajput tribe of Indha, the chief branch of the Parihars (the ancient sovereigns of Mandor), extends from Balotra north, and west of the capital, Jodhpur, and is bounded on the north by the _thal_ of Guga. The _thal_ of Indhavati embraces a space of about thirty coss in circumference. =Gūgadeo ka Thal.=—The _thal_ of Guga, a name celebrated in the heroic history of the Chauhans, is immediately north of Indhavati, and one description will suit both. The sand-ridges (_thal-ka-tiba_) are very lofty in all this tract; very thinly inhabited; few villages; water far from the surface, and having considerable jungles. Tob, Phalsund, and Bimasar are the chief towns in this _rui_. They collect rain-water in reservoirs called _tanka_, which they are obliged to use sparingly, and often while a mass of corruption, producing that peculiar disease in the eyes called _rataundha_ (corrupted by us to _rotunda_) or night-blindness,[8.1.26] for with the return of day it passes off.