xliv Annual Address. (February, 1915. 
and dates are more or less incorrect; and an historical one, 
which is contemporary with the facts related and therefore 
accurate and reliable. One of the beauties of these chronicles 
is their simplicity and impartiality. Most of them were com- 
posed privately, and chiefly by magistrates and clerks of the 
State, Pancalas and Muhnots.. The most conspicuous example 
is the Khyata or chronicle of Muhnot Neusi, formerly Hakim 
at Malarno, and then minister to Maharaja Jasvant Singh of 
Jodhpur from a.p. 1658 to 1667. It embodies the historical 
traditions of all the Rajput races, and was composed, partly 
from conversations of the author with the people of the 
different States, and partly from written documents that were 
available to him. In each case, the author makes it a point 
to cite his source of information, and the account is in all 
cases so impartial as to be beyond suspicion. I have men- 
tioned but one example; but there are dozens and dozens of other 
Khyatas, which are not second to it in importance or accu- 
racy. They are mostly found written in huge volumes, 
sometimes in the form of a leather-bound register, sometimes 
case of Jodhpur, it was in the seventeenth century, during 
the reign of Jasvant Singh the First, that this chronological 
literature reached its climax. Of his reign we have so many 
documents, that from them we can reconstruct the history of 
the period with the greatest accuracy and minuteness. 
that time, the Marwar State was a jagir of the empire of 
Shah Jahan, and the very powerful Jasvant Singh took 4 
prominent part in the struggles that led to the succession of 
Aurangzeb. From this point of view, the Marwari chronicles 
of the period reflect also the history of the Empire. Some 
of these volumes of Khyatas do not contain connected chroni- 
cles, but only miscellaneous accounts referring to different 
subjects of an historical character. To give an example of — 
the many-sidedness of the information supplied, Dr. Tessitori has _ 
drawn up for me a list of the subjects in one vahi belonging t? — 
