Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal June 1909

The style is the same as that of Buddha-carita ; the sentiments the same ; the religious teaching the same the boldness in deviating from the rules of Panini the same the versification and the language also the same. [...] " By universal consent as well as by the gotra of this race " says he " its princes are admitted to be the direct descendants of Rama of the solar line." ' " These are styled Ranas and are the elder branch of the Suryavansi or ' children of the sun.' Another patronymic is Raghuvansi derived from a predecessor of Rama the focal point of each scion of the solar race. [...] The titles of many of these claimants are disputed ; but the Hindu tribes yield unanimous suffrage to the prince of Mewar as the legitimate heir to the throne of Rama and style him Hindua Sooraj or ' Sun of the Hindus.' This explains the pride of the Rana of Mewar calling himself " a descendant of a hundred kings " to which Tod constantly refers in his book. [...] As the number of the knots corresponds to the number of the pravaras in the Ora what is meant to convey is that the Vaijavapa Ora has three pravaras. [...] His second son was Dhanka who through fear of Khumana fled away from Chitod to the Vindliyas on the Narmada " The account speaks for itself and allows us safely to infer that the Brahmana origin of the Guhilots was fresh in the minds of the people even so late as the middle of the nineteenth century.