[33]. ‘Regent’; the title the Rana is most familiarly known by.
[34]. Thali, ‘a brass platter.’ This is the highest mark of confidence and friendship.
[35]. This compound of the betel or areca-nut, cloves, mace, Terra japonica, and prepared lime, is always taken after meals, and has not unfrequently been a medium for administering poison.
[36]. Hours of twenty-two minutes each.
[37]. Familiar contraction of Surajmall.
[38]. [Anogeissus latifolia.]
[39]. The Hindu Proserpine, or Calligenia. Is this Grecian handmaid of Hecate also Hindu, ‘born of time’ (Kali-janama)? [Καλλιγένεια, ‘bearer of fair offspring,’ has, of course, no connexion with Kāli.]
[40]. Gaunda, or Gaunra, is the name of such temporary places of refuge; the origin of towns bearing this name.
[41]. Such grants are irresumable, under the penalty of sixty thousand years in hell. This fine district is eaten up by these mendicant Brahmans. One town alone, containing 52,000 bighas (about 15,000 acres) of rich land, is thus lost; and by such follies Mewar has gradually sunk to her present extreme poverty.
[42]. [Kānthal, in Partābgarh State, is the boundary (Kāntha) between Mewār on the north, Bāgar on the west, and Mālwa on the east and south.]