Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s1.47

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at this day covering an area of nearly ten thousand square miles. As this subject will be discussed in its proper place, we shall no longer dwell on it, but proceed with the posterity of Prithiraj, amongst the few incidents of whose life is mentioned his meritorious pilgrimage to Dewal,¹ near the mouth of the Indus. But [353] even this could not save him from foul assassination, and the assassin was his own son, Bhim, “ whose countenance (says the chronicle) was that of a demon.” The record is obscure, but it would appear that one parricide was punished by another, and that Askaran, the son of Bhim, was instigated by his brethren to put their father to death, and “ to expiate the crime by pilgrimage.”² In one list, both these monsters are enumerated amongst the ‘anointed’ of Amber, but they are generally omitted in the genealogical chain, doubtless from a feeling of disgust.