[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.