Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c40.61

v3.c40.61

Gūgadeo ka Thal.—The thal of Guga, a name celebrated in the heroic history of the Chauhans, is immediately north of Indhavati, and one description will suit both. The sand-ridges (*thal-ka-tiba*) are very lofty in all this tract; very thinly inhabited; few villages; water far from the surface, and having considerable jungles. Tob, Phalsund, and Bimasar are the chief towns in this *rui*. They collect rain-water in reservoirs called *tanka*, which they are obliged to use sparingly, and often while a mass of corruption, producing that peculiar disease in the eyes called *rataundha* (corrupted by us to *rotunda*) or night-blindness,¹ for with the return of day it passes off.