must not sell teaching,” said the teacher, and the class murmured
applausively:--“You must not sell teaching.”
The population of Boondi seems more obviously mixed than that of the
other States. There are four or five thousand Mahomedans within its
walls and a sprinkling of aborigines of various varieties, besides the
human raffle that the Bunjaras bring in their train, with Pathans and
sleek Delhi men. The new heraldry of the State is curious--something
after this sort. _Or_, a demi-man, _sable_, issuant of flames, holding
in right hand a sword and in the left a bow--_all proper_. In chief, a
dagger of the _second_, sheathed _vest_, fessewise over seven arrows in
sheaf of the _second_. This latter blazon Boondi holds in commemoration
of the defeat of an Imperial Prince who rebelled against the Delhi
Throne in the days of Jehangir, when Boondi, for value received, took
service under the Mahomedan. It might be, but here there is no
certainty, the memorial of Rao Rutton’s victory over Prince Khoorm, when
the latter strove to raise all Rajputana against Jehangir his father; or
of a second victory over a riotous lordling who harried Mewar a little
later. For this exploit, the annals say, Jehangir gave Rao Rutton
honorary flags and kettle-drums which may have been melted down by the
science of the Herald’s College into the blazon aforesaid. All the
heraldry of Rajputana is curious and, for such as hold that there is
any worth in the “Royal Science,” interesting. Udaipur’s shield is,
naturally _gules_, a sun in splendor, as befits the “children of the sun
and fire,” and one of the most ancient houses in India. Her crest is the
straight Rajput sword, the _khanda_; for an account of the worship of
which very powerful divinity read Tod. The supporters are a Bhil and a
Rajput, attired for the forlorn-hope; commemorating not only the
defences of Chitor, but also the connection of the great Bappa Rawul
with the Bhils who even now play the principal part in the Crown-Marking
of a Rana of Udaipur. Here, again, Tod explains the matter at length.
Banswara claims alliance with Udaipur and carries a sun, with a label of
difference of some kind. Jeypore has the five-coloured flag of Amber
with a sun, because the House claim descent from Rama, and her crest is
a kuchnar tree, which is the bearing of Dasaratha, father of Rama. The
white horse, which faces the tiger as supporter, may or may not be the
memorial of the great _aswamedha yuga_ or horse sacrifice that Jey
Singh, who built Jeypore, did _not_ carry out.
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