[53] History of the Marāthas, vol. i. p. 25.

[54] Village Communities, pp. 226, 227.

[55] The Aryan Household, ed. 1891, p. 190.

[56] Ibidem, p. 228. Professor Hearn followed Sir Henry Maine in thinking that the clan was an expansion of the patriarchal joint family; but the reasons against this view are given subsequently.

[57] Memoir of Central India, vol. ii. p. 22.

[58] La Cité antique, 21st ed. pp. 66, 68.

[59] La Cité antique, 21 st ed. pp. 66, 68.

[60] Nigeria, quoted in Saturday Review, 6th April 1912.

[61] Religion of the Semites, p. 96.

[62] See article Sunār for a discussion of the sanctity of gold and silver, and the ornaments made from them.