Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s2.t1.120

v1.c20.s2.t1.120

Rāna Hamīr Singh, A.D. 1301–64.—Hamir succeeded in S. 1357 (A.D. 1301), and had sixty-four years granted to him to redeem his country from the ruins of the past century, which period had elapsed since India ceased to own the paramount sway of her native princes. The day on which he assumed the ensigns of rule he gave, in the tika daur, an earnest of his future energy, which he signalized by a rapid inroad into the heart of the country of the predatory Balaicha, and captured their stronghold Pusalia. We may here explain the nature of this custom of a barbaric chivalry.