Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s1.t2.99
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s1.t2.99
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v2.c28.s1.t2.99
Mahārāja Abhai Singh, A.D. 1724–50.—The parricidal murder of Ajit is accounted the germ of destruction, which, taking root in the social edifice of Marwar, ultimately rent it asunder. Bitter has been the fruit of this crime, “ even unto the third and fourth generation ” of his unnatural sons, whose issue, but for this crime, would in all human probability have been the most potent princes in India, able single-handed to have stopped Mahratta aggrandisement.