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Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —On the Fritlii Bdj Bdsd. [No. 1, 
Colonel Tod lias given S. 1249 for the battle between Sliahabnddin 
and Prithi Raj; but he does not adduce any arguments against S. 1158 
given in the Prithi Raj Rasa. 
Again, he describes the existence of Rana Rah up, (son of Rawal 
Samar Singh’s"* grandson) in the 13th century of Yikram’s era, who 
lived really in the fourth quarter of the 14th century. 
The Colonel is not to blame, because the ‘ Prithi Bdj Bdsd ’ has 
caused mistakes of dates in the histories and annals of Rajputana ; and 
it was difficult, rather impossible for him, to write otherwise, when 
materials for History were available with great difficulty. If he is to 
blame at all, it is simply that he did not attend to the sequence of facts 
in his book.f 
His narrative misled many authors, as for instance, Forbes in his 
‘ Ras Mala; ’ Prinsep in Yol. II. of his ‘Antiquities ; ’ and Dr. Hunter 
in Yol. IX. of his ‘Imperial Gazetteer’ p. 166 [London edition, 1881], 
where we read “In A. D. 1201, Rahnp was in possession of Chittore, ” 
i. e., in S. 1257—58; but we find no trace of Rawul Samar Singh even 
till after S. 1324 (= 1267 A. D.), as the next Inscription in this paper 
will show. 
lY. 
Next, something must be said about the mistakes occasioned by the 
‘ Prithi Raj Rasa ’ in History. 
The Muhammadans had a regular system of writing History, the 
Hindus had no such system; if there was anything of the kind, it was 
simply the genealogies, and very little, if any, historical accounts written 
in the books of the bards, or exaggerated poems of the times. 
It is worth keeping in mind that the genealogical tables given in 
such books are found to be somewhat correct after the Samvat year 
1600 ; those between S. 1400 and S. 1600 are wrong in several instances ; 
but those previous to S. 1400 (= A. D. 1343) found in them are all 
wrong and guesswork. 
When the ‘ Prithi Raj Rasa ’ was forged and made known to the 
public as a poem by Chand, the bards and poets adopted the 12th cen¬ 
tury of Yikram’s era for Prithi Raj’s death, in all their books bearing 
on the history of Rajputana. 
As for example— 
(1) The marriage of Rawal Samarsi Ji of Mewar with Pritha, 
the sister of Prithi Raj, narrated in the ‘ Rasa,’ led them to adopt the 
S. 1106 as that of Rawal Samarsi’s ascending the throne of Mewar, 
* Called also Samarsi, 
t Tod’s ‘ Eajasthan.* 
