Note (1) — CHAPTER 30

Note 1.—The invocation, which was long, has been omitted by me. But this is sufficient to show that Bal-nat’h, the deity worshipped in Puttun Somnat’h, ‘the city of the lord of the Moon,’ was the sun-god Bal. Hence the title of the dynasties which ruled this region, Bal-ca-Rae, ‘the princes of Bal,’ and hence the capital Balicapoor, ‘the city of the sun,’ familiarly written Balabhi, whose ruins, as well as this inscription, rewarded a long journey. The Rana’s ancestors, the Suryas, or ‘sun-worshippers,’ gave their name to the peninsula Saurashtra, or Syria, and the dynasties of Chaura, and Chauluc, or Solanki, who succeeded them on their expulsion by the Parthians, retained the title of Balicaraes, corrupted by Renaudot’s Arabian travellers into Balhara [802].