[13]. [Suigām in Pālanpur State, near the Ran of Cutch (BG, v. 348).]
[15]. The Author learns that important modifications of this system have been made by the legislative authorities at home: of their extent he is ignorant, except that remuneration to chiefs for the loss of transit duties has not been omitted. This is as it should be! [The opium question is still in a state of transition. Exports to China were closed in 1913, and, owing to the loss of revenue, compensation has been awarded to the Native States by the Government of India. For the trade up to 1911 see IGI, iv. 242 ff.; Watt, Comm. Prod. (1908), 845 ff.]
[16]. [For these fairs see Erskine iii. A. 206, 208.]
[17]. [The State jails have been reorganized, and humane treatment of prisoners is enforced (Erskine iii. A. 163 ff.).]
[18]. The Rajputs and Hindus in general hold precisely the same idea, of the cause of eclipses, as the Getae of Scandinavia. [This is a form of sympathetic magic: as prisoners are released, so will the sun and moon be freed from the demon.]
[19]. Chandrama. The moon is represented by silver, which is called after her (or him) chandi.
[20]. [According to the more common story, she walked through a pile of burning wood.]
[21]. [Since the reorganization of the Courts of Justice and the introduction of criminal codes, trial by ordeal has been prohibited (Erskine iii. A. 132 ff.). In 1854 Sir H. Lawrence made a treaty with Mewār which provided that “no person be seized on the plea of sorcery, witchcraft, or incantations” (Lee Warner, Native States of India, ed. 1910, p. 305).]
[22]. [The most solemn oath among the Scythians was by the royal hearth (Herodotus iv. 68).]