6 Notes

  1. Jadunath Sarkar,* A History of Jaipur* (Delhi, 1984), p. 20.
  2. In modern times “Amer” is often referred to as “Amber.”
  3. Hortsmann Monika,* Jaipur 1778: The Making of a King* (Germany, 2013), p. 20.
  4. Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher and Cynthia Talbot. India before Europe (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 125–126.
  5. Sarkar, * A History of Jaipur*, p. 225.
  6. The Persian term “mansab” denotes rank determining the positions and salaries of a governmental official.
  7. Satish Chandra, Mughal Religious Policies (Delhi, 1993), pp. 99–101.
  8. Monika Horstmann, Visions of Kingship in the Twilight of Mughal Rule (Amsterdam, 2006), p. 8.
  9. Monika Horstmann, “Govinddevjī of Vrndaban and Jaipur” in A. W. Entwistle and F. O. Mallison, Ed., Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature: Research Papers (New Delhi, 1994), p. 86.
  10. Horstmann, Visions of Kingship, p. 7.
  11. Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, Ed., Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives (London, 2012), p. 1.
  12. Christopher Minkowski, “Advaita Vedānta in early modern history” in Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, Ed., Religious Cultures in Early Modern India (London, 2012), pp. 73–99.
  13. Rosalind O’Hanlon, “Speaking from Siva’s temple: Banaras scholar households and the Brahman ‘ecumene’ of Mughal India” in Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, Ed., Religious Cultures in Early Modern India (London, 2012), pp. 125–145.
  14. Heidi Pauwels, “A tale of two temples: Mathurā’s Keśavadeva and Orcchā’s Caturbhujadeva” in Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, Ed., Religious Cultures in Early Modern India (London, 2012), pp. 146–167.
  15. Monika Horstmann, “Theology and statecraft” in Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook, Ed., Religious Cultures in Early Modern India (London, 2012), pp. 52–72.
  16. The Karma-vivṛti that I refer to and translate is derived from an edited Sanskrit manuscript from Monika Horstmann’s German book Der Zusammenhalt der Welt (pp. 218–290), originally sourced from the Mansingh Museum in the City Palace of Jaipur. [Horstmann, Monika. Der Zusammenhalt der Welt (Wiesbaden, 2009)] (Monika Horstmann has translated the text into German, however this is the first time that major segments of the work are translated and analysed in the English medium.)
  17. The Karmādhikāra-nirṇaya was procured from the City Palace Library in Jaipur with the kind aid of Dr Giles Tillotson, the Consultant Director of the City Palace Museum in Jaipur, and the permission of the Royal Family. There is only a single copy of this manuscript. The* Karmādhikāra-nirṇaya*, which has never been edited or translated, was in places not legible due to the scribe’s handwriting, so required cross-referencing to works featured in the compilation.
  18. Bahura, Gopal Narayan, Literary Heritage of the Rulers of Amber and Jaipur: With an Index to the Register of Manuscripts in the Pothikhana of Jaipur, Maharaja Savai Man Singh II (Jaipur, 1976), p. 20.