Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c30.t1.35

v2.c30.t1.35

Rāo Deorāj.—Deoraj remained for a long time concealed in the territory of the Barahas; but at length he ventured to Buta, his maternal abode, where he had the happiness to find his mother, who had escaped the massacre at Tanot. She was rejoiced to behold her son’s face, and “ waved the salt over his head,” then threw it into the water, exclaiming, “ Thus may your enemies melt away!” Soon tired of a life of dependence, Deoraj asked for a single village, which was promised; but the kin of the Buta chief alarmed him, and he recalled it, and limited his grant to such a quantity of land as he could encompass by the thongs cut from a single buffalo’s hide; and this, too, in the depth of the desert. For this expedient he was indebted to the architect Kaikeya, who had constructed the castle of Bhatner.¹ Deoraj immediately commenced erecting a [236] place of strength, which he called after himself Deogarh, or Derawar,¹ on Monday, the 5th of the month Magh (sudi), the Pushya Nakshatra, S. 909.