Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.616
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.616
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v3.c43.t1.616
Further south is a spot of deep interest: the tank and palace of Chitrang Mori,¹ the ancient Puar lord of Chitor, whose inscription I have already given. The interior sides of the tank are divided into sculptured compartments, in very good taste, but not to be compared with the works at Barolli, though doubtless executed under the same family. Being now within two hundred yards of the southern bastion, I returned by the mahalls of the once vassals of Chitor, namely, Sirohi, Bundi, Sunth,² Lunawada, to the Chaugan, or ‘field of Mars,’ where the military festival of the Dasahra is yet held by the slender garrison of Chitor. Close to it is a noble reservoir of a hundred and thirty feet in length, sixty-five in width, and forty-seven in depth. It is lined with immense sculptured masses of masonry, and filled with water.