'రాణా ప తాప సింహ చరి § ఉ॥ వీరరసార్దమా కథలు జారతి వీరుల గొలుచు త్రీరమణాళి సత్కథలు రిత్ర . వీనులు సోఁక నమస్కరించి పూ సజ్జనుఁడౌటను రాజపుత్ర ధా రేయుఁబవల్ గడియించి యాంగ్ల భా షా రమణీయకావ్యముగ * శ్రద్ధమెయిన్ రచియించె నాతఁడు౯. ఆ సీ॥ సర్వసన్నుతము రాజస్థానదేశంబు మాతృదేశము మించి మహితభక్తిఁ గొలిచి తద్దేశ వా + సుల బుధువులపోల్కిఁ బ్రేమించుటను జేసి పృథ్విజనులు 42 I dipped the middle finger of my right hand and made the tilac on his head. I then girt him with the sword and congratulated him in the name of my govern ment, declaring aloud that the British government would never cease to feel a deep interest in all that concerned the welfare of Boondi and the young prince's family.. The mother of the young prince sent me by the hands of the family priest the bracelet of adoption as her brother, which made my young ward, henceforth my bhanji or nephew, His annals of Rajasthan show the result of his administration as restorer of Rajnutana. The people were deeply attached to birn as Heber continues to observe "His name appears to be held in a degree of affection and respect by all the upper and middling classes of society, highly honourable to him." Speaking of Bhilwara which Tod had almost recreated, he says "It ought to be called Tedgnnge but there is no need, for, we shall never forget him." The fact is. that the place was called Todgunge but the name was withdrawn at the instance of Tod himself. In the year 1822 after two and twenty years of service, eighteen of them spent among the Rajaputs of Western India and five as Political agent, Colonel Tod's shattered health called upon himn imperatively to suspend his toils and quit the climate of India. But the ruling passion forbade him to proceed direct to the port of embarkation. In 1819, he had completed the circuit of Marwar. visiting, its capital, Icdhpur [via] Kumbhalmere thence returning by Mairtra and Ajmir to Udaipur. Next year, he visited Kotah and Boondi the latter of which he revisited in 1821 having received the intelligence of the death of his friend the. 'Rao Raja Ram Singh,' who had left Colonel Tod guardian of his infant son, the prince of Haras. He returned to Udaipur in March 1822 and took final leave of the valley in June of that year. He procceded across the Aravali to Mount Abog and inspected the wonders of that sacred place--and embarked for England Bombay in the early part of 1823. The religious feelings of the Rajput will not permit him to see the axe applied to the noble peepul or unbrageous burr (ficus indica) without execrating he destroyer. Unhappy the constitution of mind which knowingly wounds teligious prejudices of such ancient date. Yet, is it thus with our countrymen in he East, who treat all foreign prejudices with contempt, shoot the bird sacred to