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If we could have joined this force to the enemies of Siraj-ud-daula we should have placed on the throne another Nawab not, indeed, one wholly to our taste, but, not to worry about trifles, one to the liking of the house of Jagat Seth, and the chief Moors and Rajas. I am sure such a Nawab would have kept his throne.
The allusion is to the incarnation of Vishnu as the Horse-necked. Nilakantha explains suvarnakhyam Jagat to be Veda prancha, i.e., the whole Vedas with all their contents. According to him, the sense of the passage is that Vishnu in that form swells with his own voice the Vedic notes chanted by the Brahmanas. Patauti Jalam sravantiti patalam. Thus Nilakantha.
"the best informed were the bankers and merchants, who by their commercial correspondence had been in a position to learn many things. The house of Jagat Seth, for instance, was likely to help the English all the more because to its knowledge of them it joined several causes of complaint against Siraj-ud-daula. Up to the death of Aliverdi Khan it had always enjoyed the greatest respect.
I have already spoken of the house of Jagat Seth, or rather of its chiefs, who are named Seth Mahtab Rai and Seth Sarup Chand, bankers of the Mogul, the richest and most powerful merchants who have ever lived. They are, I can say, the movers of the revolution. Without them the English would never have carried out what they have.
Rana Jagat Singh was clearly a devout worshipper whose faithful adhesion to Rajput standards found exhilarating compensations in Krishna's role as lover. Keshav Das's Rasika Priya achieved the greatest popularity at his court its blend of reverent devotion and ecstatic passion fulfilling some of the deepest Rajput needs.
The census of Bengal records the worship of the earth, sun and rivers as females, of the snake goddesses Manasâ and Jagat Gaurî and of numerous female demons who send disease, such as the seven sisters, Ola Bibi, Jogini and the Churels, or spirits of women who have died in childbirth.
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