[1]. [Rank, prescribing precedence and gradation of pay (Irvine, Army of the Indian Moghuls, 3 ff.).]
[2]. [The dates are uncertain; those in the margin follow Erskine (iii. B. 25).]
[3]. From batna, ‘to divide, to partition.’
[4]. See the remonstrance of the vassal descendants of these chiefs, expelled their patrimony by their prince, to the English enemy, Vol. I. p. [230].
[6]. Literally, ‘a bellyful.’
[7]. Instead of being, as it imports, the ‘ascending,’ (Skt. udaya), it should for ever, in both the houses of Maru and Mewar, signify ‘setting’; the pusillanimity of the one sunk Mewar, that of the other Marwar.
[8]. [There has been some controversy about Jodh Bāī, but it is clear that she was wife of Jahāngīr, not of Akbar (Āīn, i. 619).]
[9]. [This is one of the Jogi orders (Rose, Glossary, ii. 9). The Author (Western India, 136) says that Ayāmāta is tutelary goddess of the Koli tribe. One branch of the Lohānas specially worship her (Census Report, Mārwār, 1891, ii. 139).]
[10]. A pahar is a watch of the day, about three hours.