Prefixed to a descriptive sketch of the city of Narwar (which I may append), the year S. 351 is given for its foundation by Raja Nal, but whether obtained from an inscription or historical legend, I know not. It, however, corroborates in a remarkable manner the number of descents from Nal to Dhola Rae, namely, thirty-three, which, calculated according to the best data (see Vol. I. p. 64), at twenty-two years to a reign, will make 726 years, which subtracted from 1023, the era of Dhola Rae’s migration, leaves 297, a difference of only fifty-four years between the computed and settled eras; and if we allowed only twenty-one years to a reign, instead of twenty-two, as proposed in all long lines above twenty-five generations, the difference would be trifling. [The story is legendary. The eighth in descent from Vajradāman, the first historical chief of Gwalior, who captured that fortress from Vijayapāla of Kanauj (_c._ A.D. 955-90) was Tej Karan, otherwise known as Dulha Rāē, the Dhola Rāē of the text, who left Gwalior about A.D. 1128 (Smith, _EHI_, 381; _IGI_, xiii. 384).] We may thus, without hesitation, adopt the date 351, or A.D. 295, for the period of Raja Nal, whose history is one of the grand sources of delight to the bards of Rajputana. The poem rehearsing his adventures under the title of Nala and Damayanti (fam. Nal-Daman) was translated into Persian at Akbar’s command, by Faizi, brother of Abu-l Fazl, and has since been made known to the admirers of Sanskrit literature by Professor Bopp of Berlin [_Āīn_, i. 106; Macdonell, _Hist. Sanskrit Literature_, 296 ff.]. Footnote 9.1.5: [Kachhwāhagār or Kachhwāhagarh, the former meaning the ‘water-soaked land,’ the latter the ‘fort,’ of the Kachhwāhas, is a tract between the Sind and Pahuj Rivers, ceded to the British by the Gwalior State in payment of a British contingent (Elliot, _Supplementary Glossary_, 237, 283, note).] Footnote 9.1.6: [For the tale of a serpent identifying the heir see Vol. I. p. 342.] Footnote 9.1.7: [The hero in folk-tales often wins recognition by his skill in the kitchen, as in the story of Shams-al-Dīn in the _Arabian Nights_; see Tawney, _Kathāsarit-sāgara_, i. 567.] Footnote 9.1.8: The Tuar tribe were then supreme lords of India. Footnote 9.1.9: Dhārhi, Dholi, Dom, Jāga are all terms for the bards or minstrels of the Mina tribes. Footnote 9.1.10: See Map for Dausa (written Daunsa), on the Banganga River, about thirty miles east of Jaipur. Footnote 9.1.11: