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 four races called Agnikula (of which the Pramar was the most
numerous), at every step of ancient Hindu history are seen displacing
the dynasty of Yadu. Here the struggle between them is corroborated by
the two best Muhammadan historians, both borrowing from the same
source, the more ancient histories, few of which have reached us. It
must be borne in mind that the Sodhas, the Umars, the Sumras, were
Pramars (vulg. _Puar_); while the Sammas were Yadus, for whose origin
see Annals of Jaisalmer, p. #1185# above.
Footnote 8.2.26:
[This is very doubtful. See Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_, 2nd ed. 447.]
Footnote 8.2.27:
[Sora is supposed to represent the Chola Kingdom in S. India
(McCrindle, _Ptolemy_, 64 f.).]
Footnote 8.2.28:
Of these, the author was so fortunate as to obtain one of Menander and
three of Apollodotus, whose existence had heretofore been questioned:
the first of the latter from the wreck of Suryapura, the capital of
the Surasenakas of Manu [_Laws_, ii. 19, vii. 193] and Arrian; another
from the ancient Avanti, or Ujjain, whose monarch, according to
Justin, held a correspondence with Augustus; and the third, in company
with a whole jar of Hindu-Scythic and Bactrian medals, at Agra, which
was dug up several years since in excavating the site of the more
ancient city. This, I have elsewhere surmised, might have been the
abode of Aggrames, Agra-gram-eswar, the “lord of the city of Agra,”
mentioned by Arrian as the most potent monarch in the north of India,
who, after the death of Porus, was ready to oppose the further
progress of Alexander. Let us hope that the Panjab may yet afford us
another peep into the past. For an account of these medals, see
_Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society_, vol. i. p. 313.
[Aggrames, King of the Gangaridae and Prasii, also known as Xandrames,
probably the Hindu Chandra, belonged to the Nanda dynasty (Smith,
_EHI_, 40; McCrindle, _Ancient India in Classical Literature_, 43).]
Footnote 8.2.29:
Captain, now Colonel, Pottinger, in his interesting work on Sind and
Baluchistan, in extracting from the Persian work Mu’jamu-l Waridat,
calls the ancient capital of Sind, Ulaor, and mentions the overthrow
of the dynasty of ‘Sahir’ (the Siharas of Abu-l Fazl), whose ancestors
had governed Sind for two thousand years.
Footnote 8.2.30:
[The present population is 4924.]
Footnote 8.2.31:
[In Shikārpur, Sind, near the frontier of Bahāwalpur.]
Footnote 8.2.32:
[By another story, Abdu-n-nabi Khān, brother of Ghulām Nabi Khān,
prince of Sind, assassinated his too successful general, Mīr Bijar, in
A.D. 1781 (_IGI_, xxii. 399).]
Footnote 8.2.33:
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