[18] Madden, “Journal Asiatic Society Bengal,” 1848, p. 600; Hunt, “Popular Romances,” 73.

[19] Buchanan, “Eastern India,” iii. 38.

[20] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 225 sqq.; “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” iii. 181 sq.

[21] Knowles, “Folk-tales from Kashmîr,” 10.

[22] “Original Inhabitants,” 455.

[23] “Central India,” ii. 206.

[24] Tod, “Annals,” i. 67; for other examples see Buchanan, “Eastern India,” ii. 131, 352, 478; “Central Provinces Gazetteer,” 110.

[25] “Panjâb Ethnography,” 114.

[26] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 83.

[27] Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 8.