Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.5

v2.c28.5

Authorities.—Let us begin with a statement of the author’s authorities; first, a genealogical roll of the Rathors, furnished by a Yati, or Jain priest, from the temple of Narlai.² This roll is about fifty feet in length, commencing, as usual, with the theogony, followed by the production of the ‘first Rathor from the spine (rahat) of Indra,’¹ the nominal father being ‘Yavanaswa, prince of Parlipur.’ Of the topography of Parlipur, the Rathors have no other notion than that it was in the north; but in the declared race of their progenitor, a Yavan prince, of the Aswa or Asi tribe,² we have a proof of the Scythic origin of this Rajput family.