Annals of Rajputana

Although we have abundant authority to assert the grandeur of the kindom of Canourat the period of its extinction both from the bard Chund and the concurrent testimony of Mahomedan authors yet are we astonished at-the description of the capital attested not only by the annals of the Rahtores but by those of their antagonists the Chohans. [...] There "Jey Sing met the conflict when the Nilab changed its name to Soorkhab "There was the Ethiopic (Habshee) king and the skilfpl Frank learned in "mid arts t overcome by the lord of C inouj " The chronicles of the Chohans the sworn foe of the Rahtores repeat the greatness of the monarclr of Canouj and give him the title of "Mandalica." They affirm that he overcame the king of the north § [...] Here in the land of Kher " amidst the sand-- hills of the Looni (the salt-river of the desert) from which the GobiIs were expelled Seoji planted the standard of the Rahtores At this period a community of Brahmins held the city and extensive lands about Palli from which they were termed Palliwal ; and being greatly harassed by the incursions of the mountaineers the Mairs and Meenas they call [...] The banner of the empire floated pre-eminent over the'panchranga; the five-coloured flag which had led the Rahtores from victor‘ to victory and waved from the sandhills of Amerkote to the salt-lake of Sambhur ; from the desert bordering the Garah to the peaks of the Aravali. [...] The two first epochs were occupied in the subjagatian of the western portion of the desert from the ancient allodiality; nor was it until Chonda coquered Mundore on the decline of the Chohans of the east that the fertile lands on either side the Looni were formed into fiefs for the children of Rinmull and Joda.