Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s1.t1.124

v3.c42.s1.t1.124

1022, we have every right to conclude that his father Anuraj lost his life and Asi to the king of Ghazni ; at the same time that Ajmer was sacked, and the country laid waste by this conqueror, whom the Hindu bard might well style “ the demon from Kujliban.”¹ The Muhammadan historians give us no hint even of any portion of Mahmud’s army penetrating into the peninsula, though that grasping ambition, which considered the shores of Saurashtra but an intermediate step from Ghazni to the conquest of Ceylon and Pegu, may have pushed an army during his long halt at Anhilwara, and have driven Randhir from Golkonda.² But it is idle to speculate upon such slender materials ; let them suffice to illustrate one new fact, namely, that these kingdoms of the south as well as the north were held by Rajput sovereigns, whose offspring, blending with the original population, produced that mixed race of Mahrattas, inheriting with the names the warlike propensities of their ancestors, but who assume the name of their abodes as titles, as the Nimbalkars, the Phalkias, the Patankars, instead of their tribes of Jadon, Tuar, Puar, etc. etc.