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" Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan." The Annals of Marwar con- 

 tained in his last volume, might well indeed be expected to throw some 

 light upon this subject : since it was by the remains of the Rahtore 

 family that last reigned at Canouje, by two grandsons of the unfortu- 

 nate Jaya Chandra, that this still subsisting principality of the solar 

 race was fixed in Central India, near the beginning of the 1 3th century, 

 and escaped for several ages the notice of the Musulman princes that 

 had subverted the ancient Hindu monarchies of the north. The pro- 

 fessed records of the earlier periods of the family yet remain in the 

 hands of the bards and other dependents of these princes at Marwar : 

 and these traditional legends always deserve attention, though they 

 cannot for various reasons command historical belief . 



These chronicles all connect in a loose manner the solar race in the 

 person of Sumitra (about the sixtieth from Rama), the last prince of 

 Ayodhya mentioned in the Puranas, with the sovereignty of the Rahtore 

 family at Canyacubja — thence proceeding hastily to the defeat and 

 death of Jay Chand or Jaya Chandra, and the flight of his grandsons 

 Seoji and Satram to Marwar ; — after which, they begin to wear the 

 appearance of circumstantial history. Some of them however assume an 

 aspect of chronological definiteness at the period of Nayn Pal (Nayana 

 Pala,) whom they represent as having conquered Canouje in the year of 

 Vicramaditya 526, or A. D. 470, from king Ajipala, a descendant of 

 Ajamidha, of the Lunar race, which race they represent as having held 

 the sovereignty of Canyacubja or Gadhipura, from the fabulous times 

 of Gadhi, father of Visvamitra, to whom its foundation is generally 

 ascribed, down to this comparatively recent period. From this Nayn 

 Pal, the Marwar chroniclers give a genealogical series of twenty genera- 

 tions to the unfortunate Jaya Chandra, thus filling the interval from 

 A. D. 470 to 1193. Some observed incongruities in the testimony 

 on which this series is given have not prevented Colonel Tod from 

 attaching to the former date, and to the whole genealogy, a credit which 

 he does not appear to give to any names preceding Nayn Pal in the 

 same genealogical rolls. He takes it for established fact that the Rah- 

 tore family thus reigned for seven centuries at Canouje, and that this 

 was the only principality of the solar race that ever occupied that an- 

 cient seat of Hindu empire. 



The exhibition of this genealogy, as given by Colonel Tod, side by 

 side with the testimony of indubitable Sanscrit monuments brought to 

 light by Colebrooke, Fell, and Wilson, as to the actual reign of the 

 Rahtore princes at Canouje, will bring to the test these assertions of 

 the bards and panegyrists of the royal house at Marwar. It will be 

 seen that it needs not the absence of the names of Yasovarman and 



