[108] Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, i. 132 sq. Malcolm, Memoir of Central India, ii. 209 sqq. Forsyth, Highlands of Central India, p. 172 sq.
[109] Sleeman, op. cit. ii. 344 sq.
[110] Ward, op. cit. ii. 119.
[111] Chevers, op. cit. p. 659 sqq. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, i. 191 sqq. van Mökern, Ostindien, i. 319 sqq.
[112] Tod, quoted by Chevers, op. cit. p. 659 sq.
[113] Crooke, op. cit. i. 193.
[114] Ibid. i. 191 sq.
[115] Chevers, op. cit. p. 663.
[116] Cf. Steinmetz, ‘Gli antichi scongiuri giuridici contro i creditori,’ in Rivista italiana di sociologia, ii. 58. For the practice of dharna see ibid. p. 37 sqq.; Balfour, Cyclopædia of India, i. 934 sq.; van Mökern, op. cit. i. 322 sq.
[117] Cf. Jones, quoted by Balfour, op. cit. i. 935.