78 On the Ballads and Legends of the Punjab. [No. 1. 



In his history of Marw&r, Tod derives the Eahtore Eajpootres 

 from a Tavan (Greek) king of the Aswa tribe called Yavanaswa of 

 Parlipoor iu the North. Yet the author himself styles this, " Scy- 

 thian ancestry."* The word Parlipoor should probably be rendered 

 Palipoor, and may have been used by the vulgar to designate the 

 capital of the country, in which Pali was spoken. 



In like manner the royal family of Mewar, the purest of the un- 

 descended race, derive their origin from Nowshirwan who ascended 

 the throne of Persia, A. D. 543. It is manifest therefore, that 

 their genealogical rolls, beyond that period at least, are pure fictions,, 

 and that they have been Eajpootres no more than 1300 years. 



It is a remarkable circumstance that in a list of kings of the 

 Solar line following Vikramaditiya, with which an intelligent pundit 

 of Huzara furnished me, the 8th in succession after Vikramaditiya, 

 is Bam Chunder, who therefore ought to have flourished about 

 A. D. Ill or 438 years after the Macedonian invasion, a period at 

 which, it is certain from the remaining coins, that the Grecian 

 character was in use. 



I give this list, although I do not know its history. 

 After Vikramaditiya — Sooruj bunses. 



1. Equoikoo. 



2. Kurrn Kaja. 



3. Urjun Paul, his son. 



4. Kaja Shah or Gur Kotarr, his son. 



5. Syj Indur, his son. 



6. Nonungh Daiv, his son. 



7. Earn Singh, his son. 



8. Earn Chunder, his son. 



9. Meidun Mull of whom Midnapoor. 



10. Urjun Deo, his son. 



11. Eoodur Moon of whom Orissa. 



12. Bhurt Chund, his son. 



13. Mudkur Shah, his son. 



* He perhaps alludes to the " aswa," the Sanskrit for horse. But by the change 

 of a single letter aswa becomes " iswa," " Lord," which appears to me a more pro- 

 bable reading. Lord of the Yavan or Greeks. 



