55° lord’s discovery of the banians and persees.

being King of Delee, and in the conqueft of Guzzarat; as alfo the end of their meflage,that Syderaijfaldee did greet him, and did defire him, that when thofe things fhouldhappen, and he fhould invade Guzzarat, that he would forbear to deface the templeand monument of his father, ereded at Sythepolalpore ; as a motive to which favourSyderaijfaldee did freely prefent him with a fum of money, which fum they tenderedto Alaudin. Alaudin boldly anfwered, that he was not in appearance capable of anyfuch fortunes, but if the heavens had fo fet it down in their great volume, he couldnot alter it, but mull lay wafte the temple ; and in the majefty of his nature refufedthe gift and treafure brought him. His parents, better inftrufted by their own neceffitywhat was meet for him to do than his heroic difpofition would be taught, importunedhim to take the treafure, urging their own needs, and how convenient a help it mightbe to raife him to thefe fortunes that were to him divined. So apprehending the counfelto be but reafonable, he took the treafure, and give an efcript, or writing, that albeitthe heavens had decreed that he fhould fcatter fome ftones out of that building, yethe would pick them out of the corners thereof in fuch manner as fhould fulfil hisfortune, and make good his promifed favour to Syderaijfaldee, in the fparing of thattemple and tomb of his father. By this money of compofition, Alaudin gathered fol-diers, and betook himfelf to arms, wherein he proved himfelf fo refolute, that hegained great fame, whereunto his divining fortunes became fuch a fpur, that he wasmade King of Delee, and after that made invafive conquefts on Guzzarat, fulfilled hispromife to Syderaijfaldee in treaty, on the fore-mentioned bufinefs. In which conquefthe overthrew many Rajahs, to the great ruin and decline of the Banian ftate. Butgrowing weary of this long war, and many Rajahs flying to places inacceflible, ledwith a defire to return to Delee, his native place, he committed the further managingof thefe wars to one butter con, that was his cupbearer in this manner: For Alaudinconfidering how great he was grown from nothing,(and that accidentally,)he determinedas accidentally to heap this fortune upon another ; purpofing over night with himfelf,that whoever did firft prefent him the next with any gift, on him to confirm thegovernment of that part of Guzzarat he had conquered. It fo fell out, that whilftthis fecret was lodged up in the King’s breaft, that the fore-mentioned Futtercon,the King’s wine-keeper, by the rifing fun tendered a cup of wine to the King’shand, who fmiled and looked favourably upon him, and in the prefence of his army,confirmed him his fuccefi'ov in the government of that he had won, enjoining themalfo to acknowledge him, and to do whatfoever he fhould command in the further pro*fecution of that conqueft. So Suttan Alaudin departed to Delee, and the faid Futtercondid further invade Guzzarat, and fo did the reft of the Mahometans that fucceeded him,to the decline of the Banian ftate and regiment.

Now for their prefent eftate ; fome of the Rajahs yielded, others flying to retirementsimpregnable, lay in the maw of the country, and could not be conquered even to thisday ; but making outroads, prey on the Caffaloes pafling by the way; and fometiinescome to the fkirts of their ftrongeft and moft populous towns, having many refolutefoldiers to go on in thefe attempts of rapine, called Rafhpoots, which implieth as muchas the fons of Kings ; for being of the call of the Cutteries, it is like they were noblydefeended, and fome of the progeny of thofe that were overrun in the Guzzarat conqueft*Of thofe that live unconquered at this day, fuch a one is Raiah Surmalgee, living atRal’peeplaw ; Rajah Berumlhaw, at Molere; Rajah Ramnager; Rajah Barmulgee,and the great Rannah, w 7 ho hath fought many fet battles with the Mogul’s forces.This may be obfervable concerning the call of the Cutteries.

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