[5]. [Moth, phaseolus aconitifolius; til, sesamum indicum.]
[6]. [Only a few acres of cotton are now grown.]
[7]. [Guār, dolichos biflorus; water-melons are known as matīra; kakri, a coarse variety of melon.]
[8]. I sent specimens to Mr. Moorcroft so far back as 1813, but never learned the result.—See Article “On the Preservation of Food,” Edin. Review, No. 45, p. 115.
[9]. Mr. Barrow, in his valuable work on Southern Africa, describes the water-melon as self-sown and abundant.
[10]. [Twenty miles S. of Bīkaner city, containing a temple of Karniji, the guardian deity of the Mahārāja’s family.]
[11]. Water is sold, in all the large towns, by the Malis, or ‘gardeners,’ who have the monopoly of this article. Most families have large cisterns or reservoirs, called tankas, which are filled in the rainy season. They are of masonry, with a small trap-door at the top, made to exclude the external air, and having a lock and key affixed. Some large tankas are established for the community, and I understand this water keeps sweet for eight and twelve months’ consumption. [The proper form of the word seems to be tānkh, tānkha (Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 2nd ed. 898 f.; H. Beveridge, The Academy, xlvi. 174).]
[12]. [About 40 miles N.W. of Bīkaner city. The chief salt lakes are at Chhāpar and Lūnkaransar (Erskine iii. A. 350).]
[13]. [Multāni mitti, fuller’s earth, found near Madh in the S. of the State, and sometimes eaten (Erskine iii. A. 251; Watt, Econ. Prod. 329 f.).]
[14]. One thousand rupees have been given for one; one hundred is the average value.