[2868] Fischer, in ‘Jour. As. Soc. Bengal,’ vol. ix. pt. ii. p. 834.
[2869] ‘Ymer,’ vol. v. p. xxiv.
[2870] Rowney, loc. cit. p. 158.
[2871] Gordon Cumming, loc. cit. pp. 405, et seq.
[2872] Stulpnagel, in ‘The Indian Antiquary,’ vol. vii. p. 135.
[2873] Cunningham, ‘Ladák,’ p. 306.
[2874] Dunlop, loc. cit. pp. 180, et seq.
[2875] Cunningham, ‘History of the Sikhs,’ p. 18. Cf. Orazio della Penna di Billi, ‘Account of the Kingdom of Tibet,’ in ‘Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle,’ &c., p. 336; Moorcroft and Trebeck, loc. cit. p. 180; Bonvalot, ‘Across Thibet,’ vol. ii. p. 126; Rockhill, ‘The Land of the Lammas,’ p. 212.
[2876] Mr. Wilson says (loc. cit. p. 207) that it is probably the common marriage custom of at least thirty millions of respectable people.
[2877] Wheeler, ‘The History of India,’ vol. ii. p. 241.