Part 59

Elliott, Hoshangabad Settlement Report.

The following description is taken from the Ethnographic Appendices to Sir H.H. Risley's India Census Report of 1901.

Irvine's Army of the Mughals, p. 82.

Ibidem, p. 232. Gopal is a name of Krishna.

Lit. armour-bearers. Colonel Tone writes: "I apprehend from the meaning of this term that it was formerly the custom of this nation, as was the case in Europe, to appear in armour. I have frequently seen a kind of coat-of-mail worn by the Maratha horsemen, known as a beuta, which resembles our ancient hauberk; it is made of chain work, interlinked throughout, fits close to the body and adapts itself to all its motions."

In order to obtain redress by Dharna the creditor or injured person would sit starving himself outside his debtor's door, and if he died the latter would be held to have committed a mortal sin and would be haunted by his ghost; see also article on Bhat. The account here given must be exaggerated.

Elphinstone's History, 7th ed. p. 748.

Ibidem, p. 753.

Some information has been obtained from a paper by Mr. Harbans Rai, Clerk of Court, Damoh.

Rajendra Lal Mitra, quoted in art. on Beria.

Greeven, op. cit. pp. 29, 33.

Op. cit p. 334.

Greeven, p. 66, quoting from Echoes of Old Calcutta.

Crooke, op. cit.

Crooke, op. cit. para. 52.

Ibbetson, op. cit. para. 227.

Greeven, op. cit. p. 21.

The fruit of the achar (Buchanamia latifolia).

Acacia arabica.

Acacia catechu.

Some writers consider that Balmik, the sweeper-saint, and Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana, are not identical.

Page 38.

Page 8.

Page 54.

Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 599.

Sir H. Risley, l.c., art. Dom.

Institutes, x. 12-29-30.

Ibidem, iv. 239, quoted by Mr. Crooke, art. Dom.