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Then there was great shouting and fighting; and soon they came together, uncle and nephew, striking at each other, yet never hating, though they must make battle because of Chitor and the Kingdom of Mewar. "To none would Suráj yield, but only to Prithvi, bravest of the brave. So suddenly in a loud voice he cried 'Stay the fight, nephew. If I am killed, no great matter.
In the interval, judiciously employing his troops, he conquered a great part of Rohilkhand; occupied the important post of Ráberí, on the Jumna; and laid siege to Itáwa and Dholpur. But troubles were preparing for him in Central India, from a quarter which it would not do for him to neglect. These troubles were caused by Ráná Sanga, Ráná of Chitor.
Or does nothing exist for you south of Delhi?" "Just a thing or two not to mention Thea!" "Of course I beg her pardon! She would appreciate Chitor." "Rather. They went there and Udaipur, last year. She's death on getting Vincent transferred. And the Burra Sahibs are as wax in her hands. If they happen to be musical, and she applies the fiddle, they haven't an earthly !"
Early on Wednesday the 1st November, therefore, we bade adieu to the capital of the State of Mewar, and, accompanied by our kind host and hostess, set out to spend a day in exploring the ruined city of Chitor before taking train for Bombay.
Suddenly there came over him the old childish dread of dark, that he had never quite outgrown. But dread or no, explore it he must.... As his foot touched earth, a low hiss warned him he was trespassing, and clutching Terry's collar, he stood rigid, while the whip-like shadow of death writhed across a strip of moonlight and disappeared. There was life, of a sort, in Chitor.
For below him, in the silvery moonlight of morning, lay Chitor; her shattered arches and battlements, her temples and palaces dwarfed to mere footstools for the gods.
He was standing alone on a moonlit plain, blotched and streaked with shadows of dák-jungle and date-palm; and rising out of it abruptly as he had seen it last night loomed the black bulk of Chitor; the sacred, solitary ghost of a city, linked with his happiest days of childhood and his mother's heroic tales. The great rock was scarped and bastioned, every line of it.
"Bismillah!" the Chief cried for he had not noticed this before; "it is the tilac, the Rana's sealing of the document; it is the mystic number that means that the contents are sacred, that the curse of the Sack of Fort Chitor be upon him who violates the seal, it is the oath of all Rajputs tilac, that which is forbidden.
Her last words entirely like herself though they were surprised him. "Son of my heart live for ever," she whispered, laying light hands on his breast. "And when you go into the battle, always keep strongly in your mind that They must not win, because no sacred or beautiful thing would be left clean from their touch. And when you go into the battle always remember Chitor."
Riding quickly through new Chitor a dirty little town, fast asleep he reached the fortified gateway: was challenged by sleepy soldiery; gave his name and passed on into another world; a world that grew increasingly familiar with every hundred yards of ascent.
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