22**==>>>>>========= తె* వౌ వౌ తౌ او تحصی سمیت 2 ک2T 型娶型憂盤@醫 Oh Thou ill-starred deceased Third Prince of PANNA, ROW RAJA KHOMAN SING JU DEB BAHAD00R, In 1901 when through the treachery of your own nephew, His Highness The Mohendra Maharaja Madhab Sing Bahadoor of Panna and through the machinations of his well-known concubine Hadrijan, your untimely and lamented death occurred from arsenic poisoning and the beneficent Government of India touched with compassion on your bereaved family and in vindication of the cause of justice took cognisance of the case and ultimately were graciously pleased to dethrone the reigning Chief, Madhab Sing, sentencing his Hindu Secretary Acchalal to capital punishment and to raise your minor son Jadabindra Sing to the guddy of Panna, the poor author of this book, who then in the service of His Highness, in obedience to the dictates of his own conscience, tried in his humble way to uphold the cause of virtue, honesty and truth, even at a tremendous risk of his life, had by an irony of fate to relinquish all his connection with that illustrious Royal Family, to which he had the honour to render an unstinted service and homage for a period of 17 long years. Now though that connection, once so dear and dignifying, has ceased most probably for ever, he can not wipe out from his mind the sweet recollections of your blessed companionship which you were then so pleased to grant him. It was through that blessed companionship that he was inspired with many noble and elevating thoughts about the principles of Hindoo Religion, which you with your deep knowledge and vast erudition in the countless treasures of the ancient shasters inculcated into his mind. In respectful acknowledgment of the debt immense of endless gratitude which you were thus pleased to lay him under, THIS BOOK is dedicated in your beloved name with a fervent prayer that your departed soul may rest in peace in heaven aad your noble son may live long in the blissful enjoyment of such hard-fought and dear-bought Throne of Panna as its pride and glory, walking in the footsteps of his illustrious fore-fathers and glorifyhng the most noble and august family of the Great Chatrasal. CALCUTTA, By the Author. JDated the 3oth Vanuary, 1904. \\ W. .# مع صور.
