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ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES <br/>
OF <br/>
'''RAJASTHAN '''<br/>

OR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN <br/>
RAJPUT STATES OF INDIA <br/>

By <br/>
LIEUT.-COL. JAMES TOD <br/>
Late Political Agent to the Western Rajput States <br/>

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by <br/>
WILLIAM CROOKE, CIE. <br/>
Hon. D.Sc. Oxon., B.A., F.R.A.l. <br/>
Late of the Indian Civil Service <br/>

In Three Volumes <br/>
VOL. IV: ANNALS OF MEWAR<br/>
[The Annals were completed in 1829]<br/>

HUMPHREY MILFORD <br/>
Oxford University Press <br/>
London Edinburgh Glasgow New York <br/>
Toronto Melbourne Bombay <br/>
1920 [The edition scanned] <br/>
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=The Refugee Queen=

Of the prince's family, the queen Pushpavati alone escaped the sack of Valabhi, as well as the funeral
pyre, upon which, on the death of Siladitya, his other wives were
sacrificed. She was a daughter of the Pramara prince of Chan
dravati [221], and had visited the shrine of the universal mother,
Amba-Bhavani, in her native land, to deposit upon the altar of
the goddess a votive offering consequent to her expectation of
offspring. She was on her return, when the intelligence arrived
which blasted all her future hopes, by depriving her of her lord,
and robbing him, whom the goddess had just granted to her
prayers, of a crown. Excessive grief closed her pilgrimage.
Taking refuge in a cave in the mountains of Malia, she was de
livered of a son. Having confided the infant to a Brahmani of
Birnagar named Kamlavati, enjoining her to educate the young
prince as a Brahman, but to marry him to a Rajputni,^ she

1 The Baldan, or sacrifice of the bull to Balnath, is on record, though now
discontinued amongst the Hindus. [Baldan = balidana, ' a general offering
to the gods.']

2 Pinkerton, who is most happy to strengthen his aversion for the Celt,
seizes on a passage in Strabo, who describes him as having recourse to the
same mode of purification as the Guebre. Unconscious that it may have
had a religious origin, he adduces it as a strong proof of the uncleanliness of
their habits.

3 [This corroborates Bhandarkar's theory that the Guhilots sprang from
Nagar Brahmans.]
mounted the funeral pile to join her lord. Kamlavati, the
daughter of the priest of the temple, was herself a mother, and
she performed the tender offices of one to the orphan prince, whom
she designated Goha, or ' cave-born.' ^ The child was a source
of perpetual uneasiness to its protectors : he associated with
Rajput children, killing birds, hunting wild animals, and at the
age of eleven was totally unmanageable : to use the words of the
legend, " How should they hide the ray of the sun ? "