Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s3.28

v1.c20.s3.28

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.” To Jodha it was the first step in the ladder of his eventual elevation. A century and a half had scarcely elapsed since a colony, the wreck of Kanauj, found an asylum, and at length a kingdom, taking possession of one capital and founding another, abandoning Mandor and erecting Jodhpur. But even Jodha could never have hoped that his issue would have extended their sway from the valley of the Indus to within one hundred miles of the Jumna, and from the desert bordering on the Sutlej to the Aravalli mountains : that one hundred thousand swords should at once be in the hands of Rathors, ‘the sons of one father’ (*ek Bap ke Betan*).