[15]. [About 30 miles N.E. of Būndi city: for Bijaiseni Māta see Vol. II. p. [1193].]
[16]. The laws of revenge are dreadfully absolute: had the sons of Deo Singh survived, the feud upon their liege lord would have been entailed with their estate. It is a nice point for a subject to balance between fidelity to his prince, and a father’s feud, bap ka vair.
[17]. The queens’ apartments.
[18]. [In early Hindu times a similar performance of mock funereal rites took place in the event of contumacious disregard of the rules of caste (Barnett, Antiquities of India, 120).]
[20]. [In the island of Pāmban, Madura District, Madras (IGI, xxi. 173 ff.).]
[21]. [Sītakund, in Chittagong District, Bengal (ibid. xxiii. 50).]
[22]. [Jagannāth, not “a Moloch”: religious suicides under his car are infrequent (Hunter, Orissa, i. 133 f.).]
[23]. [Krishna, at Dwārka.]
[24]. [Kāli, Pārvati, Māta, or Nāni, not Agnidevi, is worshipped at Hinglāj (IGI, xiii. 142).]