[43]. Sangam is the point of confluence of two or more rivers, always sacred to Mahadeva.
[44]. The Jumna, Chambal, and Sind [triveni, ‘triple braid’].
[45]. [650 miles.]
[46]. The only tribes not of Rajput blood.
[47]. The ‘virgin’ stream.
[48]. I do not repeat the names of towns forming the arrondissements of the various States; they are distinctly laid down in the boundary lines of each.
[49]. Thal is the general term for the sand ridges of the desert. [Skr. sthala, ‘firm ground.’]
[50]. Most probably a corruption of aranya, or desert; [or irina, īrina, ‘desert, salt soil’], so that the Greek mode of writing it is more correct than the present.
[51]. [The area of the Rann is about 9000 square miles: its length 150, breadth, 60 miles. Bhuj lies inland, not on the banks of the Rann.]
[52]. It is here the wild ass (gorkhar) roams at large, untamable as in the day of the Arabian Patriarch of Uz, “whose house I have made the wilderness, the barren land (or, according to the Hebrew, salt places), his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver” (Job xxxix. 6, 7).