The Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan Or The Central and Western Rajpoot States of India

the bards from the days of Vyasa the contemporary of Job td the time of Beni-dasa the present chronicler of Mewar. [...] The party spirit of the rival sects of India was doubtless adverse to the purity of hitory ; and the very ground upon which the Brahmins built their ascendancy was the ignorance of the people. [...] I began with the sacred genealogy from the Pleranas ; examined the Afahabharat and the poems of Chund' (a complete chronicle of his times) ; the voluminous historical poems of Jessulmeer Mar yar and Mewar ;* the histories of the Kheetchies and those of the Hara princes of kotah and Boondi &c. [...] But the mantle of ages has shrouded from view what the magic pen of the historian might have consecrated to endless admiration ; Somanath might have rivalled Delphos ; the spoils of Hind might have vied with the wealth of the Lybian king ; and compared with the array of the Pandus the army of Xerxes would have dwindled into insignificance. [...] 613 Worship of arms : of the magic brand of Mewar. compared with the enchanted sword Tirsing of the Edda 616 Birth of Ku-mara the Rajpoot Mars compared with the Roman divinity...