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పూర్వ పీ తిక.
 

 
॥ మేవాడరాజ్య ల । శ్రీ ష్మీ పదాంభోజాత ములను గొల్చిన దత్త పుత్రకుండు!
బాలగోవింద వి శ్రీ ప్రస్వామి శిష్యుఁడై తవిలి మ్రొక్కిన మేటి ధర్మమూర్తి!
స్వర్ణర బంధ బద్ధుఁడై బూందీమహారాజ్ఞి సేవించు ననుఁగుదమ్ముఁ!
డఖిలప్రజాగణం । బభినుతుల్ గావించు రామసింహుని రాజ రక్షకుండు!
గీ॥ తీవ్రరుజు పెచ్చు పెరిగి భాధించుచున్న ఁ ద్రుటియు మేవాడ విడఁబోని దొడ్డమగఁడు!
భరతఖండాభిమాని సత్ప్రభువతంస మాస్తమణి టాన్డుదొర నిత్యమభినుతింతు.
మ॥ సరసాగ్రేసర చక్రవర్తియును నా 'స్కాట్లండు' సంవాసియుక్
వగ కారుణ్య రసార్ద్ర మానసుఁడు కర్నల్ జేమ్సు టాడ్పడితుం
డిగవై రెండగునేండ్లు హైందవమునందింపార నుద్యోగియై
చరియించె గిరులు బురంబులును రాజస్థాన దేశమ్మునక్.
 
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portion of it situated on either side the Indus, formed the richest satraphy of
Darius. It has abounded in the more striking events which constitute the
materials for history. There is not a petty state in Rajasthan that has not bad
But the
its Thermopylae or scarcely a city that has not produced its Leonidos.
mantle of ages, has shrouded from view what the magic pen of the historian
might have consecrated to endless admiration; Semanath might have rivalled
Delphos; the spoils of Hind might have vied with the wealth of the Lybian King;
and compared with the array of the Pandus, the army of Xerxes would have
dwindled into insignificance. But the Hindus either never had or have unfortu-
nately lost their Herodotus and Xenophon. If the moral effect of History depends
on the sympathy it excites, the annals of these states possess commanding interest.
The struggle of a brave people for independence, during a series of ages, sacrificing
whatever was dear to them for the maintainance of the religion of their forefathers
and sturdily defending to death, and in spite of every temptation, their rights and
natural liberty, form a picture which it is difficult to contemplate without emotion.
Could I impart to the reader but a small portion of the enthusiastic delight with
which I have listened to the tales of times that are past amid scenes where these
events occured, I should not dispair of triumphing over the apathy which dooms
to neglect almost every effort to enlighten my native country on the subject of
"Colonel James Tod."
 
India. .
 
There is something magical in absence, it throws a deceitful medium
between us and the objects we have quitted, which exaggerates their amiable
I look upon Mewar as the
qualities and curtails the proportions of their vices.
land of my adoption and linked with it, the associations of my early hopes and
their actual realisation, I feel inclined to explain with reference to her and her
unmanageable children. ''Mewar! with all they faults, I love thee still."