[12]. Kunchi and mutthi are both a ‘handful’; the first is applied to grain in the stalk at harvest time; the other to such edibles in merchandise as sugar, raisins, etc., collectively termed kirana.
[13]. Rikh[rishi] is an ancient title applied to the highest class of priests; Rikh-Rikhsha-Rikhiswara, applied to royalty in old times.
[14]. Adhan is the richest land, lying under the protection of the town walls; mal or maleti land is land not irrigated from wells.
[15]. In all a hundred and twenty bighas, or about forty acres.
[16]. [For the annual Jain retreat see p. [606], above.]
[17]. The chief of Delwara.
[18]. There are other grants later than this, which prove that all grants were renewed in every new reign. This grant also proves that no chief has the power to alienate without his sovereign’s sanction.
[19]. Epithet indicative of the greatness of the deity.
[20]. Here is another proof that the sovereign can only alienate the revenues (hasil); and though everything upon and about the grant, yet not the soil. The nim-sim is almost as powerful an expression as the old grant to the Rawdons—
“From earth to heaven,