22 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XV, 
consisted of bare lists of names, and a particular feature in 
them was that they did not begin from Sihé—the founder of 
the Marwar branch of the Rathoras—, but from Salakho, the 
part i,” begins from Cidé, two generations after Salakho. 
y was an imperfect one, and the works were more in the 
form of a collection of disconnected lists than in the form of 
orderly treatises. 
The later pidhiyavalis, which came into existence towards 
_ the end of the sixteenth century A.D. and which are, intrinsic- 
ally, the same as those which we now possess, are in the form of 
orderly treatises. They were compiled, of course, from the 
earlier works, but on a well arranged plan, and were integrated 
with the addition of all the genealogies intervening between 
Stho and Salakho, which had been left out of account in the 
earlier works. Not only this, but they were also enlivened by 
1 Descr. Cat. of Bard. and Histl. MSS., section ii, pt. i, pp. 7-8. 
2 Pp 6 
3 Here Samvat 1500 is given as a round figure. As a matter of fact 
a few dates falling within the later half of the Samvat century 1400 are 
found in the later pidhiyavalis. 
