[4]. Decline and Fall, ed. W. Smith, i. 375.

[5]. V. A. Smith, Early History of India, 3rd ed. 408; Rhys Davids, Buddhist India, 60 f.

[6]. Primitive Culture, 2nd ed. ii. 239.

[7]. Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship, 231 ff.; The Golden Bough, 3rd ed.; The Magic Art, ii. 269 ff.

[8]. Early History of India, 408.

[9]. Journal Royal Asiatic Society, 1905, 1 ff. The tradition seems to have started earlier in Southern India, S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Ancient India, 1911, 390 ff.

[10]. Journal Asiatic Society Bengal, 1909, 167 ff. The criticism by Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia (ibid., 1912, 63 ff.) is extremely feeble.

[11]. E. S. Hartland, Primitive Paternity, i. 258 ff.

[12]. K. D. Erskine, Gazetteer Western Rajput States and Bikaner Agency, A. i. 177.

[13]. Bombay Gazetteer, I. Part i. 385; Bombay Census Report, 1911, i. 279; Smith, Early History, 413.