Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c29.t1.33

v2.c29.t1.33

Apprehensive, however, that Bika or his descendants might encroach upon their rights, they asked what security he could offer against such a contingency? The Rajput chief replied that, in order to dissipate their fears on this head, as well as to perpetuate the remembrance of the supremacy thus voluntarily conferred, he would solemnly bind himself and his successors to receive the *tika* of inauguration from the hands of the descendants of the elders of Shaikhsar and Ronia, and that the *gaddi* should be deemed vacant until such rite was administered.