Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s1.94

v2.c27.s1.94

There is no donation too great or too trifling for the acceptance of Krishna, from the baronial estate to a patch of meadow-land; from the gemmed coronet to adorn his image, to the widow’s mite; nor, as before observed, is there a principality [526] in India which does not diminish its fisc to add to his revenues. What effect the milder rites of the shepherd-god have produced on the adorers of Siva we know not, but assuredly Eklinga, the tutelary divinity of Mewar, has to complain of being defrauded of half his dues since Kanhaiya transferred his abode from the Yamuna to the Banas; for the revenues assigned to Kanhaiya, who under the epithet of ‘Yellow mantle’² has a distinguished niche in the domestic chapel of the Rana, far exceed those of the Avenger. The grants or patents of Hindupati,³ defining the privileges and immunities of the shrine, are curious documents.¹