“There were eight councillors; two chosen priests profound in the law, besides another inferior council of six. Of subdued appetites, disinterested, forbearing, pleasant, patient; not avaricious; well acquainted with their duties and popular customs; attentive to the army, the treasury; impartially awarding punishment even on their own sons; never oppressing even an enemy; not arrogant; comely in dress; never confident about doubtful matters; devoted to the sovereign.” Footnote 2.4.2: Mithila, the modern Tirhut in Bengal [including the modern districts of Darbhanga, Champāran, and Muzaffarpur]. Footnote 2.4.3: Kusadhwaja, father of Sita (spouse of Rama), is also called Janaka; a name common in this line, and borne by the third prince in succession after Suvarna Roma, the ‘golden-haired’ chief Mithila. Footnote 2.4.4: [Rohtās in the modern Shāhābād district; Champapura in Bhāgalpur.] Footnote 2.4.5: Familiarly designated as Sahasra Bahu ki Basti, or ‘the town of the thousand-armed.’ [In Indore State (_IGI_, xvii. 8).] Footnote 2.4.6: The Haihaya race, of the line of Budha, may claim affinity with the Chinese race which first gave monarchs to China [?]. Footnote 2.4.7: Of this I have heard the most romantic proofs in very recent times. Footnote 2.4.8: Puru became the patronymic of this branch of the Lunar race. Of this Alexander’s historians made Porus. The Suraseni of Methoras (descendants of the Sursen of Mathura) were all Purus, the Prasioi of Megasthenes [see p. 37, n.]. Allahabad yet retains its Hindu name of Prayag, pronounced Prag. Footnote 2.4.9: The Hares. Sesodia is said to have the same derivation. [From Sesoda in Mewār.] Footnote 2.4.10: The princes of Ranthambhor, expelled by Prithwiraja of Delhi, were of this race. Footnote 2.4.11: The modern Chanderi [in the Gwalior State, _IGI_, x. 163 f.] is said to be this capital, and one of the few to which no Englishman has obtained entrance, though I tried hard in 1807. Doubtless it would afford food for curiosity; for, being out of the path of armies in the days of conquest and revolution, it may, and I believe does, retain much worthy of research. [The capital of the Chedi or Kalachuri dynasty was Tripura or Karanbel, near Jabalpur (_IGI_, x. 12).] Footnote 2.4.12: