[3] “Patál,” one of the seven regions which Hindus believe to exist under the earth. [↑]
[4] Pad-jal, i.e., pad a foot, and jal water, “foot-water”; water in which a Gosain has dipped his foot, or (at least) his great toe, and which is therefore looked upon as sacred. It is otherwise known as charanámrita, i.e., charan foot, and ámrita, umtal ambrosia. [↑]
[5] For other information about Garos, see Garo Monograph, pp. 17, 19, 21.—Ed. [↑]
[6] See paper by Major P. R. T. Gurdon, in Journal of A. S. B., Vol. LXXIII., Part I, No. 1, 1904. [↑]
[7] Hábung-iyá, perhaps from há earth, bung for su-bung men; hence hábung-iya, autochthones, adscripti glebœ, something like the serfs of the old feudal system in Europe. [↑]
[8] I.e., daśā, the tenth.—Ed. [↑]
[9] See Outline Grammar of the Deori Chutiya Language, by W. B. Brown, B.A., I.C.S., Shillong, Assam Secretariat Press, a scholarly work to which the writer gladly takes this opportunity of acknowledging his manifold obligations. [↑]
[10] But the Gáros plant either a mandal tree or a Euphorbia cactus near their Kosi or sacrificial stones, hence recognising the sacred character of the siju tree (see Gáro Monograph, p. 97).—Ed. [↑]
[11] Bar = big, saru = small.—Ed. [↑]
[12] Cf. the old Jewish law regarding animals for sacrifice being “without blemish,” Exodus, xii. 5; Leviticus, xxii. 19–21. [↑]