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Alas! his sacrifice was in vain. The Chondawat chief was already in Ontala. First of the stormers with scaling-ladders, he was shot dead by the defenders ere reaching the top of the rampart, and his corpse fell back among his dismayed followers.
Then the chief of Deogurh, rolling the body in his scarf, tied it upon his back, fought his way to the crest of the battlements, and hurled the gory body of his chieftain into the city, shouting, "The vanguard to the Chondawat!" It is further told how, when the attack began, two Mogul chiefs of note were engaged within upon a game of chess.
I am a Chondawat, and belong to the highest of the thirty-six tribes of Mewar, and that sign of the lance was put upon state documents by Chonda; it has been since that time it is but a seal. Even as that," and Zalim proudly swung a long arm toward the wall where a huge yellow sun embossed on gypsum rested "even that is an emblem of the Children of the Sun, the Sesodias of Mewar, the Rana."
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