[23]. Miyān is a term used by the Hindu to a Muslim, who himself generally applies it to a pedagogue: the village schoolmaster has always the honourable epithet of Miyān-ji!
[24]. [This is a common legend, told of the Nikumbh Rājputs of the United Provinces (Crooke, Tribes and Castes, iv. 87); by Bernier of Shāh Jahān and the Persian ambassador (p. 151 f.); of the Hatkars of the Deccan (BG, xvi. 56 note; Russell, Tribes and Castes of Central Provinces, i. 37 f.).]
[25]. Achalgarh, or ‘the immovable castle,’ is the name of the fortress of the Deora princes of Abu and Sirohi, of which wonderful spot I purpose in another work to give a detailed account [58].