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particular time, is a fact which is easily accounted for by the 
stimulus which the Rathoras in particular and the Rajputs in 
general received from the Court of Akbar. That Akbar was 
himself a believer in genealatry—-and in what was he not a 
believer !—is conspicuously demonstrated by Abul Fazl him- 
self, who, in the first chapters of his “ Nama,” has wasted much 
ink to trace the descent of this monarch to that common father 
du literature, but in the period of Akbar we are faced with a 
form of genealatry which is, as it were, contagious and affects 
both Hindus and Muhammadans alike. It i is, undoubtedly, the 
manifestation of a tendency of the period, and the contact of the 
Muhammadan and Hindu civilizations which the Mughal Emper- 
or brought about so genially, must have greatly favoured its 
spread. Thus while on one side the Emperor boasted before 
the Rajput Princes his descent from Babar and Chingiz Khan 
and proclaimed, or caused to be proclaimed, the tale of his 
miraculous conception by a Celestial Light or the Sun in the 
chaste womb of Alanguwa centuries before, the Rajput Princes 
on the other side asserted that they too were the offsprings 
of the Sun or of the Moon, and armed themselves with genea- 
logies linking the names of their ancestros with those of the 
most illustrious figures in Indian history and mythology, such 
Be da ama Candra, Krsna, and so forth. 
thought of poe ng to this eyoity pe solemn BETES of a 
iapcaney document and set it up on the jam 
eompleted gate as a conspicuous ead for oT the present and 
future generations. 
The inscription is in Sanskrit and consists of five parts, 
well distinct from one another, to wit: (1) a mangalacarana 
(Il. 1-3), (2) a preamble (Il. 3-14), (3) a genealogy of the Ratho- 
ras from Adi Narayana to raja Raya Singha (Il. 14-67), (4) a 
panegyric of Raya Singha (ll. 67-81), and lastly (5) a record of 
the dates — with the salient ei in the construction 
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written in one piece, nor perhaps by one and the same author, 
