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aga: are in dispute. Colonel Tod has not interpreted the 
term agiza: And Mr. Bhandarkar has interpreted it, in the 
second verse of the Mahatmya, to mean—‘ a god on earth >—and 
in verse first of this transcript and eighth of the Mahatmya—‘ a 
Brahman,’ but another Pandit has interpreted it to signify 
—-a king, i.e. literally the lord of or on the earth. Likewise the 
term alae gaa zat has been interpreted by Mr. Bhandarkar 
as—‘ the ornament of the Nagar family’; while by the same 
another Pandit to mean—patron 0 the Nagar family, i.e. man- 
dano, literally ornament or embellishment, hence a patron. 
The explanation of the Pandit, who differs from Mr. Bhandar- 
kaa, is, that as Mr. Bhandarkar’s aim or object in view was to 
establish the N agar-Brahmanic origin of the Chiefs of Mewar, 
he has interpreted the terms at his choice. And he (the 
Pandit) having ascertained from the verses before and after the 
verse eighth of the Mahatmya in dispute, that Guhadatta was 
really a king, and that there is a double entendre on the word 
Aeiza: which means a Brahmana as well as a king, has pre- 
ferred the latter meaning, and thereby he has interpreted the 
term ancarasat to mean—<‘ the patron of the Nagar family.’ 
In the first couplet of this transcript and in verse the eighth of 
the Mahatmya No. I, which is quoted by its author as the 
saying of some ancient poet, there is in both the same reading 
of the term fagqaracat meaning the delighter of the Brah- 
mana family, but its author in his own first verse has changed 
it as aqaeRaasat meaning the ornament (or patron) of the 
Nagar family. Accepting the presumption of the Anandapura 
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a No. I. The author of this Mahatmya No. I has not 
changed the aforesaid term only, but he has twisted the next 
couplet also, which has not been noticed, nor quoted by Mr. 
Bhandarkar. The following is that verse ~~ 
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sara 4q <afa ifearfrarat 
yaAreuta agai aula | 
ament afesaaaar ofasq | 
rewsu HaTAAATS ATCAq | < | 
