Mewar: Titles of Mewar Chiefs

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This page is an extract from ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN OR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN RAJPUT STATES OF INDIA By LIEUT.-COL. JAMES TOD Late Political Agent to the Western Rajput States Edited with an Introduction and Notes by WILLIAM CROOKE, CIE. Hon. D.Sc. Oxon., B.A., F.R.A.l. Late of the Indian Civil Service In Three Volumes VOL. IV: ANNALS OF MEWAR [The Annals were completed in 1829] HUMPHREY MILFORD Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow New York Toronto Melbourne Bombay 1920 [The edition scanned]

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Titles of Mewar Chiefs

Descent from the Sun

These are styled Ranas, and are the elder branch of the Suryavansi, or children of the sun.' Another patronymic is Raghuvansi, derived from a predecessor of Rama, the focal point of each scion of the solar race. To him, the conqueror of Lanka,’ the genea logists endeavour to trace the solar lines. The titles of many of these claimants are disputed ; but the Hindu tribes yield unani mous suffrage to the prince of Mewar as the legitimate heir to the throne of Rama, and style him Hindua Suraj, or ' Sun of the Hindus.' He is universally allowed to be the first of the ' thirty six royal tribes ' ; nor has a doubt ever been raised respecting his purity of descent. Many of these tribes ' have been swept away by time ; and the genealogist, who abhors a vacuum in his mystic page, fills up their place with others, mere scions of some ancient but forgotten stem.