Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t5.65

v2.c27.s7.t5.65

¹ [“The name probably suggested the myth [that he was a goatherd, Ajapāla = ‘goatherd’], and it is more reasonable to suppose that the appellation was given to him when, at the close of his life, he became a hermit, and ended his days at the gorge in the hills about ten miles from Ajmer, which is still venerated as the shrine of Ajaipāl. It has been shown, however, by more recent research that Aja or Ajāya flourished about A.D. 1000, and that the foundation of Ajmer must be attributed to this period” (Watson, Gazetteer, i. A. 9).]