2V2 Major Tod, on an Inscription at Madhucarghar. 



borrowing from the same source (Nicolas of Damascus),* say, that Porus, 

 king of Ogene, who enumerated six hundred kings, liis dependants, sent 

 an embassy to Augustus at Rome ; thus making a proper name of the tribe 

 Pawdr : nor is it impossible, from the same mistake, the opponent of 

 Alexander may have been designated ; though Pattrha f or Paurush (which 

 means power, strength) was a common distinctive appellation of the 

 Yddavas, who certainly were in the route of Alexander. It is to these 

 authorities, and that of Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador from James I. to 

 Jehangir, that the Rana's family is indebted for the honour of descent from 

 Porus. One of the most considerable branches of his family is termed 

 Punkvat, descendants of Puiiu, a son of Udaya siniia, from whom Chilure 

 was wrested by Akber. His stock must have been pretty numerous when 

 Sir Thomas there saw young Kurrun {Caran'), the heir apparent of Udaijapur, 

 in whose praise he is so lavish : " Here we have (says he in a letter to the 

 Arclibishop of Canterbury) tlie true descendant of Porus, a prince, in the 

 midst of the Mogul dominions, and who has never been conquered." The 

 latter point is correct : they had often been defeated ; not a city left in the 

 plains, not a house to shelter tliem ; but to tiiat period they never had 

 been subdued. 



Like the Carthaginian of old, swearing young Hannibal at the altar to 

 eternal hatred to the Romans, so did the noble Pkatapa sinha, the opponent 

 of Akber, in his last moments, make his son Amara swear, not hatred, 

 but eternal war, and never to know the luxury of a roof over his head, 

 until Chitdre should be regained. He even commanded the nobles to with- 

 draw their allegiance, if this, his last command, was disobeyed, and» to 

 set up another branch of the family. Temporary success, and consequent 

 repose, made Amaua forget the injunction ; he erected a mansion t on the 

 banks of the Paisholah lake at Udaijapur ; and amongst its garniture, some 

 splendid mirrors of European fabric from Surat. The nobles began to 

 follow his example, thougli Chitdre, their ancient capital, was still in the 

 hands of the foe. Recollecting the injunctions of PratApa (a name they 

 yet love to dwell on), the Salumbra chief, the first of the nobles, convened 

 his brethren •, and in a body tliey expostulated with their prince, insisting 

 that he should immediately relinquish the abode of luxury for the field. 

 Not meeting with compliance, the chieftain seized the marble ornament 



* Eclaircisscment. p. 177. \ See note D. % Still pointed out. 



