The Curse of a Sati.
[1]. The Deora of Sirohi is a branch of the Chauhans, one of the four Agnikulas, a race sprung from fire. See Vol. I. p. [112].
[2]. The person who summons the nobles by beat of the state nakkara, or ‘great kettledrum.’
[3]. [Mūndwa, about 90 miles N.E. of Jodhpur city.]
[5]. That beautiful simile of Ossian, or of Macpherson, borrowed from the canticles of the Royal Bard of Jerusalem, will be brought to mind in the reply of the Purohit—“I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches around me,” etc.
[6]. [Mahādāji Sindhia used the title of Patel or village headman to mark his assumed deference to the Peshwa (Grant Duff 212).]
[7]. Sang is a lance about ten feet long, covered with plates of iron about four feet above the spike. The sirohi is the sword made at the city, whence its name, and famous for its temper.