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of his own father Sajo.1. What a splendid example of filial 
devotion in a period when sons like Udo of Citora and Mala De 
of Jodhpur used to relieve their fathers of the burden of old 
age to inherit a few days earlier that power which Naro so 
magnanimously refused! And how ungrateful the father who, 
after being placed on the gaddi by the disinterested devotion 
of one of his sons, designated another son—Vagho—to be his 
heir-apparent.* Obviously enough, the story of Naré’s abdi- 
tion by Satala to show that he had a right to succeed. But 
the mere fact that he had to use such a pretext shows that he 
How could then Sajd manage to obtain the gaddi if h 
had no right? How could the nobles of Marwar tolerate an 
infringement of the established custom, according to which 
the right of inheritance and succession devolves to the eldest 
son? There is a consideration which makes the whole thing 
sons of one rani, the Hadi Jasama De; Viké and Vidéo were 
Vagho, and not Nard, was considered as the heir-apparent. In fact 
_ Vagho died before Sijé, and so did Nard, but the successor was a son of 
the former, not of the latter. 
3D aint 
oes > p- 15la. : 
+ With the help of the Khyata of Mihandta Néna Si, I have succeed- 
ed in identifying the father of Noranga De, whose name is given in the 
15 (D.C., i 
in the Chronicles that the mother of Viké was the daughter of a rand 
of the Jangalavas, is therefore incorrect. raéno of Jagald, at the 
time of Jodhé and Viké, was Napo, the son of Manika Rava. 
