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[then] let Your Majesty win rava Jodho to your side.” There- 
upon the Emperor said to raja Karana: “Introduce rava 
Jodho to me,” and [accordingly] Jodhd was introduced to 
the Emperor. The Emperor asked rava Jodhd [some] ques- 
tions, and as Jodhd answered them, the Emperor was ver 
pleased, and gave him many umbrellas and elephants and 
horses. And after giving him many things, the Emperor said : 
much as he wa 
attacked both the forts. And on that occasion the following 
song was composed :— 
His kinsman he met, ornament of the race, 
And straight to the Court then went the Diwan. 
Beholding, O Jodho, the light of thy face, 
Before thee his gifts displays the Sultan ! 
Such a song was composed on that occasion. 
That accounts of events which took place centuries before 
are always more or less inaccurate, especially when based on 
mere traditions, is easily understood. But if a certain amount 
of inaccuracy is excusable, wilful alterations and misleading 
forgeries are not, whatever the purpose for which they are 
introduced. Now, the Caranas have at all times been great, 
masters of forgeries: they have invented wonderful stories 
and to arm them with some kind of sanction, have often docu- 
mented them with apocryphal testimonial songs. Had the 
Caranas been as clever as they are wily, they would have clad 
their counterfeits in the garb ef probability, thereby making 
only fools. I have given above an extract containing an 
account of rava Jéta Si’s fight with the army of rava Mala 
De. This account, in* spite of a certain amount of inaccuracy 
is on the whole sober, and apart from the anecdote relatin 
to Mahesa, the Sakhal6, contains nothing to which an intelli- 
gent reader should take exception. Now, it is instructive to 
compare the above account with another account given by 
Sindhayaca Dayala Dasa in his recent ‘““Khyata” of Bikaner. 
Here we read that Mala De marched in person against Bikaner 
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