Footnote 3.1.36: One I know, in whose family the office has remained since the period of Prithwiraja, who transferred his ancestor to the service of the Rana’s house seven hundred years ago. He is not merely a nominal hereditary minister, for his uncle actually held the office; but in consequence of having favoured the views of a pretender to the crown, its active duties are not entrusted to any of the family. Footnote 3.1.37: The numeral eighty-four. [In the ancient Hindu kingdoms the full estate was a group of 84 villages, smaller units being called Byālisa, 42, or Chaubīsa, 24 (Baden-Powell, _The Village Community_, 198, and see a valuable article in Elliot, _Supplemental Glossary_, 178 ff.)] Footnote 3.1.38: Now each chief claims the right of administering justice in his own domain, that is, in civil matters; but in criminal cases they ought not without the special sanction of the crown. Justice, however, has long been left to work its own way, and the self-constituted tribunals, the panchayats, sit in judgment in all cases where property is involved. Footnote 3.1.39: See Appendix, No. XX. Footnote 3.1.40: [They are heads of the Rānāwat sub-tribe. The latter enjoys the right, on succession, of having a sword sent to him with full honours, on receipt of which he goes to Udaipur to be installed (Erskine ii. A. 92).] Footnote 3.1.42: Oxen and carts are chiefly used in the _Tandas_, or caravans, for transportation of goods in these countries; camels further to the north. Footnote 3.1.43: [On the mines of Mewār, see _IA_, i. 63 f.] Footnote 3.1.44: The privilege of coining is a reservation of royalty. No subject is allowed to coin gold or silver, though the Salumbar chief has on sufferance a copper currency. The mint was a considerable source of income, and may be again when confidence is restored and a new currency introduced. The Chitor rupee is now thirty-one per cent inferior to the old Bhilara standard, and there was one struck at the capital even worse, and very nearly as bad as the _moneta nigra_ of Philip the Fair of France, who allowed his vassals the privilege of coining it. [For an account of the past and present coinage of Mewār, see W. W. Webb, _Currencies of the Hindu States of Rajputana_, 3 ff.] Footnote 3.1.45: Enemy. Footnote 3.1.46: Numbering of houses. Footnote 3.1.47: A measure of land [usually 55 English yards] Footnote 3.1.48: Hallam, vol. i. p. 232. Footnote 3.1.49: Hume describes the necessity for our earlier kings making these tours to consume the produce, being in kind. So it is in Mewar; but I fancy the supply was always too easily convertible into circulating medium to be the cause there. Footnote 3.1.50: See Appendix, No. X. ----- CHAPTER 2