[80] Hindu Tribes, I., 296. [↑]

[81] Hindu Tribes and Castes, I., 330; and see Hoey, Monograph on Trades and Manufactures, 188. [↑]

[82] Sherring, Hindu Tribes and Castes, I., 330. Buchanan says that the Chaurâsis take their name from Tappa Chaurâs in Mirzapur, Eastern India, II., 470. [↑]

[83] Yule and Burnell, Hobson Jobson, 67. [↑]

[84] Ibid., 25. [↑]

[85] Quoted by Yule, Marco Polo, II., 311. [↑]

[86] Blochmann, Ain-i-Akbari, p. 75. [↑]

[87] For a good account of the system of cultivating the plant, see Buchanan, Eastern India, II., 864. [↑]

[88] Eastern India, II., 467. [↑]

[89] Tribes and Castes, I., 65. [↑]