[6]. About a hundredweight for two shillings.
[7]. [Hindustāni chhakra, ‘a cart’ (Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 2nd ed. 407 f.).]
[8]. I brought home several pairs of these, with crimson borders, sufficiently fine to be worn as a winter shawl in this country.
[9]. [Commonly known as soapstone or potstone, a soft magnesian or talcose mineral (Watt, Comm. Prod. 1049 f.).]
[10]. Shikarpur, the great commercial mart of the valley of Sind, west of the Indus.
[11]. Chandan is a scented wood for malas, or ‘chaplets.’ [Sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus (Watt, Comm. Prod. 909).]
[12]. I have no correct data for estimating the revenues of the chieftains. They are generally almost double the land-revenue of the princes in the other States of Rajwara; perhaps about two lakhs, which ought to bring into the field seven hundred horse.
[13]. [The normal revenue at present is about one lakh of rupees. The transit duties have been largely reduced.]
[14]. This, if strictly true and followed, is according to ancient principles; Manu ordains the sixth. I could have wished Colonel Briggs to have known this fact, when he was occupied on his excellent work on The Land-tax of India; but it had entirely escaped my recollection. In this most remote corner of Hindustan, in spite of oppression, it is curious to observe the adherence to primitive custom. These notes on the sources of revenue in Jaisalmer were communicated to me so far back as 1811, and I laid them before the Bengal Government in 1814-15.
[15]. [The Mahesri trading class, which derive their name from that of their caste deity, Mahesh, ‘the great lord,’ a title of Siva or Mahādeo, claim descent from Chauhān, Parihār, or Solanki Rājputs (Census Report, Mārwār, 1891, ii. 131).]