[18]. [The Mahāsati.]
[19]. [These rude Indo-Sassanian coins, also known as Tātariya dirhams, are popularly called Gadhiya paisa, or “ass copper money,” because the worn-down representation of a fire temple was believed to be the head of an ass (Cunningham, Ancient Geography, 313; Elliot-Dowson i. 3, note; BG, i. Part i. 469, note). Gandharvasen, as a punishment for offending Indra, was condemned to assume the form of an ass during the day: he consorted with a princess, and their offspring was Vikramāditya (Asiatic Researches, vi. 35 f.; W. Ward, The Hindoos, 2nd ed. i. 22).]
[20]. [Nūrābād is on the old road from Agra to Gwalior, 63 miles S. of the former, and 15 miles N. of the latter. “There is a fair sketch of the bridge in Tod’s ‘Rajasthan,’ which, however, scarcely does justice to it, as it is deficient in those architectural details which form the most pleasing part of the structure” (ASR, ii. 397).]
APPENDIX
Translations of Inscriptions, chiefly in the Nail-headed character
of the Takshak Races and Jains, fixing eras in Rajput history.[[1]]