Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s1.105

v2.c27.s1.105

Endowments of Nāthdwāra.—Let us revert to the endowments of Nathdwara. Herodotus³ furnishes a powerful instance of disregard to the sanctuary of St. Julian in Auvergne, by the soldiers of the Frank king Theodoric, who divided the spoils of the altar, and made the priests captives: an impiety not only unsanctioned by the son of Clovis, but punished by the death of the offenders, the restoration of the plunder, and the extension of the right of sanctuary five miles around the sepulchre of the holy martyr.