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with their mother, who was yet braver than they, cut out so much 

 work for Mclcbar, and who in the sieges of towns, which they main- 

 tained against him, gave such extraordinary proofs of their generosity 

 that at length they would rather be killed in the out-falls with their 

 mother than submit : and for this gallantry it is that even their 

 enemies thought them worthy to have these statues erected for them. 

 These two great elephants, together with the two resolute men sitting 

 on them, do, at the first entry into this fortress, make an impression of I 

 know not what greatness and awful terror." Thevenot, who was at 

 Delhi in 1667, corroborates Bernier' s account of these statues ; but 

 as he knew that Bernier intended to publish a description of Delhi, he 

 merely notices the principal objects, of which the first are, " the two 

 elephants at the entry which carry two warriors" 



150. The next reference that I have been able to find is by 

 Lieutenant Franklin, who visited Delhi in 1793. Stimulated by 

 Bernier's account, he made enquiries after the statues, and was informed 

 that " they were removed by order of Aurangzib, as savoring too much 

 of idolatry, and he enclosed the place where they stood with a screen 

 of red stone, which has disfigured the entrance of the palace. " # 



151. The romantic account of Bernier did not escape the notice of 

 the enthusiastic historian of the Bajputs, who, after quoting the pas- 

 $agp given above, adds,f that " the conqueror of Chitor evinced an 

 exalted sense, not only of the value of his conquest, but of the 

 merits of his foes, in erecting statues to the names of Jaymal and 

 Patta at the most conspicuous entrance of his palace at Delhi.' 5 From 

 Colonel Tod also we learn that Jaymal was a Mertiya Sdthor of Bednor, 

 and that Patta was the Chief of the Jagdwat Sisodiyas of Salumbra, both 

 being feudatories of TJdaypur. Their names, he says, " are as house- 

 hold words inseparable in Mewar, and will be honoured while the 

 Eajput retains a shred of his inheritance, or a spark of his ancient re- 

 collections." On Akbar's advance to Chitor, the spiritless Eana Uday 

 Sing retired to the western jungles, and the defence of the capital of 

 the Sisodiyas was left to the Bathpr Governor Jaymal. But the war- 

 like spirit of the Sisodiyas was roused by the mother of the young 

 Chief of Salumbra, who " commanded him to put on the saffron robe 

 and to die for Chitor." Patta was then only sixteen years old, and 

 tu^d lately married ; but to check any compunctious reluctance which 



* Asiatic Eesearches 3 IT— 446. f Rajaathan, 1—328, 



