Tod’s Annals of Rajasthan. The Annals of Mewar

The princes of Mewar are styled Ranas and are the elder branch of the Stiryavansi or children of the sun." Amongst his own people the chief of the state is known as Hindua Suraj the " Sun of the Hindus." He is regarded as the legitimate heir to"4 ANNALS OF RAJASTHAN the throne of Rama nor has any doubt ever been thrown on the purity of his descent. [...] The actual date of this event we now know to be A. D. 713 which though it curtail's by some six hundred years the antiquity of the founder of the state nevertheless places him in the very dawn of chivalry when the Carlovingian dynasty flourished in the west and when WAlid whose bands planted the green standard on the banks of the Ebro was commander of the faithful. [...] Khoman ascended the throne in 812 and his deeds are the main theme of the Khomcin Rasa ' The IChomdn Rasa traces the genealogy of the Ranas back to Rama and deals at length with the Muhammadan irruption in the tenth century the sack of Chftor by Allalaud-dfn and the wars of Rana Partar. [...] Of the lunar race the most important tribes are the Tuars and the Bhattis ; and of the last the Chohans the Pramaras and the Soltinkis. [...] Let the kirnia the chhatra and the chamara' proclaim his sovereignty and for three days let his decrees be supreme : on the fourth let him meet the foe and his fate." Whether we have merely the fiction of the poet or whether the scene was got up to animate the spirit of resistance matters little ; it is consistent with the belief of the tribe ; and the gage whether it originated with the go