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¹ The name Rājyapāla is obtained from the Jhūsi copperplate (*Ind. Ant.*, xviii, 34, Kielhorn's *List*, No. 60) and the Dūbkund inscription (*Ep. Ind.*, ii, 235). Hitherto it has been misread as 'Rāi Jaipāl' in Al Utbi (Elliot, ii, 45), with the result that much confusion has occurred. Elliot (ibid., pp. 425–7, 461) mixes up the dynasty of Bathindah with that of the Shāhiyas of Ohind, commonly called 'of Kābul', and so renders the whole story unintelligible. The inscriptions were not known when he wrote, and all subsequent writers have perpetuated his error. The version of the *Tabakāt-i-Akbari* is given by Elliot (ibid., 460). The retirement to Bārī is recorded by Alberūnī and Rashīd-ud-dīn. The subject is discussed more fully in my second paper on 'The Gurjaras of Rājputāna and Kanauj' (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, pp. 276–81).