Report of a Tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1871-72 and 1872-73

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Strana 179 - And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ. 3. In the critical work on the Four Books, called ' Record of Remarks in the village of Yung1,' it is observed, ' The Analects, in my opinion, were made by the disciples, just like this record of remarks.
Strana 25 - Jiumdoda and arrive at Beygoo. IN February, I recommenced my march for Oodipoor, and having halted a few days at Boondi, and found all there as my heart could wish, I resumed the march across the Pat'har, determined to put into execution my wish of visiting Mynal. • About ten miles north, on this side of it, I halted at Bijolli, one of the principal fiefs of Mewar, held by a chief of the Pramar tribe, with the title of Rao. This family, originally Raos of Jugnair, near Biana, came into Mewar in...
Strana 114 - A tent ; a division of a Jat clan. Pal is also the term for a community of any of the aboriginal mountain races ; a section of any Hindu tribe. The Mewati have twelve pal. The Jat have many pal. PAL, a local term for long defiles, the residence of the mountaineers ; their chiefs are called Indra Pati ; in Bhaka, Put. Its import is a defile or valley, fitted for cultivation and défonce.
Strana 114 - Dholi, or Dhom, their genealogists, to keep account. The unmixed Oosarra stock is now exceedingly rare, while the mixed races, spread over all the hilly and intricate regions of central and western India, boast of their descent at the expense of "legitimacy.
Strana 140 - These two monasteries, therefore, must have been in existence at least as early as the time of Asoka in 250 BC, when the inscription was engraved. As the proclamation is specially addressed to the Buddhist assembly of Magadha, we must suppose, as...
Strana 114 - Baber, the Cuchwahas had but little increased their territory. When this latter prince destroyed the Meena sovereignty of Naen, he levelled its half hundred gates, and erected the town of Lowain (now the residence of the Rajawut chief) on its ruins. A distinction is made in the orthography and pronunciation of the designation of this race : Myna, or Maina, meaning the asil, or
Strana 30 - ... and behold ! they were no longer mere common grains of corn, but they had turned into grains of gold. The herdsman then thought better of the matter, and turned back towards the hermit's cave, in order to ask for some more of these grains of corn which turned into gold. But when he arrived at the cave, he found it closed up, and the hermit gone ; but a supernatural voice proceeded from the interior of the cave saying — " From henceforth let there be a mela or fair held here every year in remembrance...
Strana 33 - ... really ancient, and built for sepulchral purposes, besides others on the ridge of the hill which had a more modern appearance, and which latter may have been constructed by cattleherds as amiras or elevated seats to sit on while watching their cattle grazing on the hill sides. With regard to those of the cairns which I distinguished from the rest as being really old, as indicated above, I found reason, from personal examination, to consider them to be the work of aborigines."* Again, Mr.
Strana 114 - Jadoon, Purihar, Cuchwaha, Solanki, Sankla, Ghelote, etc., and these are subdivided into no less than five thousand two hundred distinct clans, of which it is the duty of the...
Strana 113 - In this range was Khogong, Mauch, and many other large towns, the chief cities of communities. But even so late as Raja Baharmull Cuchwaha, the Contemporary of Baber and Hemayoon, the Meenas had retained or regained great power, to the mortification of their Rajpoot superiors. One of these independent communities was at the ancient city of Naen, destroyed by Baharmull, no doubt with the aid of his Mogul connections.

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