Part 49

This article is compiled from papers by Mr. Mir Padshah, Tahsildar of Bilaspur, and Kanhya Lal, clerk in the Gazetteer office.

Basi or rice boiled in water the previous day.

A measure containing about 2 1/2 lbs. of grain.

This article is mainly compiled from papers by the late Mr. Baikunth Nath Pujari, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Sambalpur; Sitaram, Head Master of the Raigarh English School, and Kanhya Lal, clerk in the Gazetteer office.

Now transferred to Bengal.

Dalton's Ethnology of Bengal, p. 322.

This article is mainly based on a paper on Aghoris and Aghorpanthis, by Mr. H. W. Barrow, in the Journal Anthr. Soc. Bombay, iii. p. 197.

Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 392.

Aghoris and Aghorpanthis, pp. 224, 226.

Page 208.

The Tribune (Lahore), November 29, 1898, quoted in Oman's Mystics, Ascetics and Saints of India, pp. 164, 165.

Studies of Indian Life and Sentiment, p. 44.

The information about birth customs in this article is from a paper by Mr. Kalika Prasad, Tahsildar, Raj-Nandgaon State.

Go, gau or gai, an ox or cow, and pal or palak, guardian.

Ind. Ant. (Jan. 1911), 'Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population,' by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar.

Elliot, Supplemental Glossary, s.v. Ahir.

Early History of India, 3rd ed. p. 286.

Elliot, ibidem.

Bombay Monograph on Ahir.

Elliot, ibidem.

Central Provinces Gazetteer (1871), Introduction.

Linguistic Survey of India, vol. ix. part ii. p. 50.

Bombay Ethnographic Survey.

Quoted in Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Goala.

Rajasthan, ii. p. 639.

Gokul was the place where Krishna was brought up, and the Gokulastha Gosains are his special devotees.

Behind the Bungalow.

Eastern India, ii. p. 467.