Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s1.40

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² For the extract from “The Annals of Princes (*Maasiru-l-Umara*)” let us laud the memory of the rhymer of Aurungabad. An original copy, which I in vain attempted to procure in India, is stated by Sir William Ouseley to be in the British Museum. We owe that country a large debt, for we have robbed her of all her literary treasures, leaving them to sleep on the shelves of our public institutions. [There is no real evidence of the Persian descent of the Rānas, and it has been suggested that the story is based on the fire symbols on the coinage found in Kāthiawār and Mewār, these, though in the main Indo-Scythic, betraying from about sixth century a more direct Sassanian influence (*BG*, i. Part i. 102). At the same time recent discoveries indicate Persian influence in N. India.]