Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t1.66

v2.c27.s7.t1.66

This fair ‘star’ (tara) was the daughter of Rao Surthan, the chieftain of Badnor. He was of the Solanki tribe, the lineal descendant of the famed Balhara kings of Anhilwara. Thence expelled by the arms of Ala in the thirteenth century, they migrated to Central India, and obtained possession of Tonk-Toda and its lands on the Banas, which from remote times had been occupied (perhaps founded) by the Taks, and hence bore the name of Taksilanagar, familiarly Takatpur and Toda.² Surthan had been deprived of Toda by Lila the Afghan, and now (The provided image is a blank page.)