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
To convince the reader I do not build upon nominal resemblance, when
localities do not bear me out, he is requested to call to mind, that
we have elsewhere assigned to the Yadus of the Panjab the honour of
furnishing the well-known king named Porus; although the Puar, the
usual pronunciation of Pramar, would afford a more ready solution.
[This is doubtful (Smith, _EHI_, 40 note).]
Footnote 8.2.21:
Colonel Briggs, in his translation [iv. 406], writes it _Hully Sa_,
and in this very place remarks on the “mutilation of Hindu names by
the early Mahomedan writers, which are frequently not to be
recognized”; or, we might have learned that the adjunct _Sa_ to Hully
(_qu._ Heri), the son of Sehris, was the badge of his tribe, Soda. The
Roy-sahy, or Rae-sa of Abulfazil, means ‘Prince Sa’ or ‘Prince of the
Sodas.’ Of the same family was Dahir, whose capital, in A.H. 99, was
(says Abu-l fazil) “Alore or Debeil,” in which this historian makes a
geographical mistake: Alore or Arore being the capital of Upper Sinde,
and Debeil (correctly Dewul, _the_ temple), or Tatta, the capital of
Lower Sinde. In all probability Dahir held both. We have already
dilated, in the Annals of Mewar, on a foreign prince named “Dahir
Despati,” or the sovereign prince, Dahir, being amongst her defenders,
on the first Mooslem invasion, which we conjectured must have been
that of Mahomed Kasim, after he had subdued Sinde. Bappa, the lord of
Cheetore, was nephew of Raja Maun Mori, shewing a double motive in the
exiled son of Dahir to support Cheetore against his own enemy Kasim.
The Moris and Sodas were alike branches of the Pramar (see Vol. I. p.
111). It is also worth while to draw attention to the remark
elsewhere made (p. 286) on the stir made by Hejauje of Khorasan (who
sent Kasim to Sinde) amongst the Hindu princes of Zabulist’han:
dislocated facts, all demonstrating one of great importance, namely,
the wide dominion of the Rajpoot race, previous to the appearance of
Mahomed. Oriental literature sustained a loss which can scarcely be
repaired, by the destruction of the valuable MSS. amassed by Colonel
Briggs, during many years, for the purpose of a general history of the
early transactions of the Mahomedans. [This note has been reprinted as
it stands in the original text. Many statements must be received with
caution. See Elliot-Dowson i. 120 ff.]
Footnote 8.2.22:
Of the latter stock he gives us a list of seventeen princes. Gladwin’s
translation of _Ayeen Akberi_, vol. ii. p. 122. [This has been
replaced by that of Jarrett, _Āīn_, ii. 343 ff.]
Footnote 8.2.23:
See Briggs’ _Ferishta_, vol. iv. pp. 411 and 422.
Footnote 8.2.24:
[For Minnagara see Vol. I. p. 255.]
Footnote 8.2.25:
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