[7] Wheeler’s History of India, vol. iv. part ii. pp. 324, 325.

[8] Forbes, Rāsmāla, i. p. 247.

[9] Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Tawāif.

[10] Extract from the Dasa Kumara Charita or Adventures of the Ten Youths, in A Group of Hindu Stories, p. 72.

[11] S. M. Edwardes, By-ways of Bombay, p. 31.

[12] Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, p. 93.

[13] Eastern India, i. p. 119.

[14] Ibidem, iii. p. 107.

[15] Ibidem, ii. p. 930.

[16] Persian Travels, book iii. chap. xvii.