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thousand fighting-men. In Mr. Hunter's journey from Agra to 

 Oujein, we find the descendants of one of their princes at this time 

 able to raise forty-one thousand troops, which he particularly 

 specifies as to number and family. It is unnecessary to mention 

 these, but some peculiar characteristics of the tribe to which they 

 belong are interesting: it is named Cuchwa'ha, and is of the sury- 

 bans, or children of the sun, already noticed, being descended from 

 Rama, the celebrated rajah of Ayodhya. Rama had two sons, 

 one named Loh, the other Cush; the descendants of Loh are 

 named Bud-Gujer, and the descendants of Cush, Cuchwa'ha. From 

 Cush, the Jayanagar chronologers reckon two hundred and ten 

 rajahs, in succession, to Prit hi Raj, who succeeded to the musnud 

 of Ambh'er in Sumbut, 1559, or A. D. 1502; and died in Sumbut 

 1584, in the twenty-fifth year of his reign. 



Prit'hi Raj had eighteen sons; Bha'eamul, the eldest, suc- 

 ceeded him on the throne ; Bhim, the second, was established 

 the Raj, or Nirwir; four died without children. To the remaining 

 twelve sons, Prit'hi Raj, to avoid the contention which he foresaw 

 was likely to happen after his death, assigned, in his lifetime, 

 portions of territory, which descended to their offspring, and are 

 called Cut'hri, or the twelve chambers of the house of Cuchwa'ha. 

 Of these twelve sons the descendants of eight can now furnish a 

 corps of forty-one thousand horse and foot in the northern dis- 

 tricts; of the other four sons no descendants are now remaining; 

 but to complete the number of chambers, four other tribes have 

 been adopted in their room. The whole families descended from 

 the rajahs of Ambh'er are fifty- three in number, under their respec- 

 tive chieftains; and these, including the above forty-one thousand, 



