[1]. [Nawalgarh, about 30 miles N.W. of Khandela; Khetri, about the same distance N.E.; Baswa, about 85 miles N.N.W. of Jaipur city.]
[2]. His second son, Raghunath, had Kuchor in appanage.
[3]. [The Amāvas, or last day of the month, is unlucky for all undertakings, and is kept as a day of rest by traders, shopkeepers, and craftsmen. If the last day falls on a Monday, it is specially taboo, and people bathe in a river or pool and make gifts to Brāhmans (BG, ix. Part i. 397). Pūs falls in January and February.]
[4]. [Close to the Jodhpur frontier, about 40 miles N.W. of Jaipur city.]
[5]. The ministers of religion were the only clerks amongst this race of depredators, and they were not behind the most illiterate in cupidity, and to say the truth, courage, when required; and as for skill in negotiation, a Mahratta Brahman stands alone; keen, skilful, and imperturbable, he would have baffled Machiavelli himself.
[6]. Ghus is literally ‘a bribe’; and no treaty or transaction was ever carried on without this stipulation. So sacred was the ghus held, from tyrant usage, that the Peshwa ministers, when they ruled the destinies of their nation, stipulated that the ghus should go to the privy purse!
[7]. Barwatia is ‘one expatriated,’ from 'bar' [bāhir] ‘out of,’ and watan, ‘a country,’ and it means either an exile or an outlaw, according to the measure of crime which caused his banishment from his country. [See Vol. II. p. [797].]
[8]. [About 20 miles N. of Jaipur city.]
[9]. [About 30 miles N. of Jaipur city.]
[10]. [See Vol. II. p. [665], for an account of this festival.]