[1]. Darra, a corruption of Dwar, ‘a barrier, pass, outlet, or portal’; and Mukund, one of the epithets of Krishna. Mukunddarra and Dwarkanath are synonymous—‘the pass and portal of the Deity.’ [Dara or darra is a Persian word meaning ‘pass’; akin to Skt. dara, ‘cleaving, rending,’ not with dvāra, ‘a door.’ The pass is situated about 140 miles E. of Udaipur city. Mukund is supposed to mean ‘giver of liberation.’ See p. [1522].]
[2]. [Atīt, meaning ‘free, destitute,’ usually applied to ascetics like the Sannyāsi, followers of Siva (Crooke, Tribes and Castes N.W. Provinces, i. 86 f.).]
[3]. [Butea frondosa.]
[4]. [A folk-etymology, Sesodia being derived from the village Sesoda in W. Mewār hill tract.]
[5]. [Barolli lies 3 miles N.E. of Bhainsrorgarh. The Kur tree is Sterculia urens (Watt, Comm. Prod. 1051): amba, the mango tree.]
[6]. [For a drawing and account of this temple see Fergusson, Hist. Ind. Arch., ed. 1910, ii. 134. He ascribes it to the 9th or 10th century, and regards this group of temples as the most perfect of their age he had met with in this region, and, in their own peculiar style, perhaps as beautiful as anything in India.]
[7]. [Mahishāsura, the buffalo demon.]
[8]. The trimurti is represented with three faces (murti) though but one head.
[9]. Nowhere else did I ever see this emblem of Time, the counterpart of the scythe with which we furnish him, which is unknown to India.