Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . annals to exhibitthe abode of the fair of Ceylon. The Flight of Rana Ajai Singh.—The survivor of Chitor, RanaAjaisi, was now in security at Kelwara, a town situated in theheart of the Aravalli mountains, the western boundary of Mewar,to which its princes had been indebted for twelve centuries ofdominion. Kelwara is at the highest part of one of its most ex-tensive valleys, termed the Shero Nala, the richest district of thisAlpine region. Guarded by faithful adherents, Ajaisi cherishedfor future occasion th
Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . annals to exhibitthe abode of the fair of Ceylon. The Flight of Rana Ajai Singh.—The survivor of Chitor, RanaAjaisi, was now in security at Kelwara, a town situated in theheart of the Aravalli mountains, the western boundary of Mewar,to which its princes had been indebted for twelve centuries ofdominion. Kelwara is at the highest part of one of its most ex-tensive valleys, termed the Shero Nala, the richest district of thisAlpine region. Guarded by faithful adherents, Ajaisi cherishedfor future occasion the wrecks of Mewar. It was the last behestof his father that when he attained one hundred years (afigurative expression for dying) the son of Arsi, the elder brother,should succeed him. This injunction, from the deficiency of thequalities requisite at such a juncture in his own sons, met a readycompliance. Hamir was this son, destined to redeem the promiseof the genius of Chitor and the lost honours of his race, and whosebirth and early history fill many a page of their annals. His. RANA AJAI SINGH IN EXILE 313 father, Arsi, being out on a hunting excursion in the forest ofOndua, with some young chiefs of the court, in pursuit of theboar entered a field of maize, when a female offered to drive outthe game. Pulling one of the stalks of maize, which grows to theheight of ten or twelve feet, she pointed it, and mounting theplatform made to watch the corn, impaled the hog, dragged himbefore the hunters, and departed. Though accustomed to feats ofstrength and heroism from the nervous arms of their country-women, the act surprised them. They descended to the streamat hand, and prepared the repast, as is usual, on the spot. Thefeast was held, and comments were passing on the fair arm whichhad transfixed the boar, when a baU of clay from a sling fractureda limb of the princes steed. Looking in the direction whenceit [268] came, they observed the same damsel, from her elevatedstand,^ p
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