Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s4.39

v1.c20.s4.39

The Escape of Rāṇa Partāp Singh.—Partap, unattended, fled on the gallant Chetak, who had borne him through the day, and who saved him now by leaping a mountain stream when closely pursued by two Mogul chiefs, whom this impediment momentarily checked. But Chetak, like his master, was wounded; his pursuers gained upon Partap, and the flash from the flinty rock announced them at his heels, when, in the broad accents of his native tongue, the salutation *Ho! nila ghora ra aswar*, ‘Ho! rider of the blue horse,’ made him look back, and he beheld but a single horseman: that horseman his brother.