. Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . gn. From him was Devaraj,* the lord of the land, whogave whatever was desired, and whose wish was to render mankindhappy. He delighted in the dance and the song. His son wasHarraj,^ whose frame was a piece of fire ; who, in the field of ^ Asa is literally, Hope. * Goddess of the race. ^ The wealth of the bee ; such are tlie metaphorical appellationsamongst the Rajputs. * This is the prince who crawled to Kedamath (see p. 14(53), and son ofRainsi, the emigrant prince from Aair, who is perhaps here designa
. Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India . gn. From him was Devaraj,* the lord of the land, whogave whatever was desired, and whose wish was to render mankindhappy. He delighted in the dance and the song. His son wasHarraj,^ whose frame was a piece of fire ; who, in the field of ^ Asa is literally, Hope. * Goddess of the race. ^ The wealth of the bee ; such are tlie metaphorical appellationsamongst the Rajputs. * This is the prince who crawled to Kedamath (see p. 14(53), and son ofRainsi, the emigrant prince from Aair, who is perhaps here designated as the wealth of the bee. This was in S. 1353, or 1297. * Jaipal (fosterer of victory) must bo the jirince familiarly calledBango in the Annals (p. 1464), and not the grandson but the son of Kulan—there said to have taken Menal or Mahanal. * Dewa is the son of Banga (p. 1464), and founder of Bundi, in S. 1398,or 1342. ^ Harraj, elder son of Dewa, became lord of Bumbaoda by the abdica-tion of his father, who tlienceforth resided at his conquest at Bundi. (Seep. 1467.) M-. 3 5 INSCRIPTIONS FROM MENAL 1803 battle, conquered renown from the princes of the land [Bhum-eswar], and dragged the spoils of victory from their pinnacledabodes. From him were the lords of Bumbaoda,^ whose land yieldedto them its fruits. From Devaraj was Ritpal,- who made therebellious bow the head, or trod them under foot, as did Kapilathe sons of Sagara. From him was Kelhan, the chief of his tribe,whose son Kuntal resembled Dharmaraj ; he had a youngerbrother, called Deda, Of his wife, Rajaldevi, a son was bornto Kuntal, fair as the offspring of the ocean .^ He was namedMahadeva. He was [in wisdom] fathomless as the sea, and inbattle immovable as Sumeru ; in gifts he was the Kalpa-vriksha *of Indra. He laid the dust raised by the hoofs of hostile steeds,by the blood of his foes. The sword [748] grasped in his extendedarm dazzled the eye of his enemy, as when uplifted oer the headof Ami Shah h
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