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==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.