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Throw dust into his mouth.’’ Dust was thrown [into the mouth 
of the Sakhald, and] the augur [who saw it] said: “{As for this] 
land, [now] the S&khal6 holds it in his jaws.” ! 
In this way Jéta Si was killed on the battle-field, whereas 
his nobles dishonoured ‘themselves. And the following verse 
was composed for the occasion :— 
The beggarly Rawat fled for his life, 
And Udo the bully fled too. 
And Har Raj the shrike relinquished the strife, 
And Lakhman the sheep also flew. 
Fled Sanglo the miser.. . .ete.? 
I shall now close the subject of the vamsavalis, i.e. of the 
early historical compositions based on the oral tradition and 
on the legends preserved by the bards, with a fantastical 
account of rava Jodho’s pilgrimage to Gaya, derived from a 
work contained in MS. 15 of Deser. Cat. of Bard. and Histl. 
, Sect. i, pt. i. This work, which in the manuscript is 
designated by the title of Vata Maravari 17, contains a collec- 
tion of biographical and historical accounts mostly referring 
to personages who lived and events which happened during the 
reign of Akbar. The date of composition of the work also 
apparently falls within the time of Akbar. That Jodhé, the 
his way back from Gaya. 
song quoted at the end is doubtful, but the statement that 
Jodhé was introduced to the Sultan by a certain Karana, ruler 
of Kanauj, is not without interest. A “rai Kiran” ruler o 
? 
and it is not impossible that this is the same person with the 
1 J.e.: ‘* You will not succeed in snatching this land from the 
Sakhalas and the Rivas of Bikaner.” 
2 Stigmatizing verses of this kind are dreaded by the Rajput, who 
i open censure, both when deserved and when not, as the 
greatest possible degradation Censorious compositions are called 
i a, meaning ‘‘ venomous,” by the bards. 
3’ Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh, transl. by G. Ranking, Vol. I, pp. 403-4. 
