A ‘skin or hyde.’ Millar (chap. v. p. 85) defines a ‘hyde of land,’ the quantity which can be cultivated by a single plough. A _charsa_, ‘skin or hyde’ of land, is as much as one man can water; and what one can water is equal to what one plough can cultivate. If irrigation ever had existence by the founders of the system, we may suppose this the meaning of the term which designated a _knight’s fee_. It may have gone westward with emigration. [The English ‘hide’: “the amount considered adequate for the support of one free family with its dependants: at an early date defined as being as much land as could be tilled by one plough in a year,” has no connexion with ‘hide,’ ‘a skin.’ It is O.E. _hīd_, from _híw_, _híg_, ‘household.’ ‘Hide,’ ‘a skin,’ is O.E. _hýd_ (_New English Dict. ssv._).] Footnote 3.1.6: _Bapji_, ‘sire,’ is the appellation of royalty, and, strange enough, whether to male or female; while its offsets, which form a numerous branch of vassals, are called _babas_, ‘the infants.’ Footnote 3.1.7: Hallam’s _Middle Ages_, vol. i. p. 200. Footnote 3.1.8: Sanskrit, _Sūla_. Footnote 3.1.9: See Appendix, No. XII. Footnote 3.1.10: See Appendix, No. XIII. Footnote 3.1.11: See Appendix, No. XIV. Footnote 3.1.12: ‘Full moon’ (See Appendix, No. XIII.). Footnote 3.1.13: It is customary, when officers of the Government are detached on service, to exact from the towns where they are sent both bed and board. Footnote 3.1.14: Seized for public service, and frequently to exact a composition in money. Footnote 3.1.15: Hallam, vol. i. p. 197. Footnote 3.1.16: Some of these, of old date, I have seen three feet in length. Footnote 3.1.17: Hallam, vol. i. p. 199. Footnote 3.1.18: Hallam notices these laws by this technical phrase. Footnote 3.1.19: Sesodia is the last change of name which the Rana’s race has undergone. It was first Suryavansa, then Grahilot or Guhilot, Aharya, and Sesodia. These changes arise from revolutions and local circumstances. Footnote 3.1.20: [The Rāthor dynasty of Kanauj is a myth (Smith, _EHI_, 385).] Footnote 3.1.21: Nala and Damayanti. Footnote 3.1.22: _Relations anciennes des Voyageurs_, par Renaudot. Footnote 3.1.23: