That this can be done without any loss of dignity by the _Sahib log_ (a name European gentlemen have assumed) is well known to those who may have partaken of the hospitalities of that honourable man, and brave and zealous officer, Colonel James Skinner, C.B., at Hansi. That his example is worthy of imitation in the mode of commanding, is best evinced by the implicit and cheerful obedience his men pay to his instructions when removed from his personal control. He has passed through the ordeal of nearly thirty years of unremitted service, and from the glorious days of Delhi and Laswari under Lake, to the last siege of Bharatpur, James Skinner has been second to none. In obtaining for this gallant and modest officer the order of the Bath, Lord Combermere must have been applauded by every person who knows the worth of him who bears it, which includes the whole army of Bengal. [James Skinner, 1778-1841. See Compton, _Military Adventurers_, 389 ff.; Buckland, _Dict. Indian Biography_, s.v.] Footnote 4.21.31: Evinced in the presentation of the _sriphala_, the fruit of _Sri_, which is the coco-nut, emblematic of fruitfulness. Footnote 4.21.32: Another point of resemblance to the Roman Saturnalia. Footnote 4.21.33: A hall so called in honour of Ganesa, or Janus, whose effigies adorn the entrance. [Janus probably = Dianus: Ganesa, ‘lord of the troops of inferior deities’ (_gana_).] Footnote 4.21.34: See p. 394. Footnote 4.21.35: See p. 324. Footnote 4.21.36: [See Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, viii. 868 f.] Footnote 4.21.37: It fell on the 18th March 1819. Footnote 4.21.38: [For festivals in honour of Gauri see _IA_, xxxv. (1906) 61.] Footnote 4.21.39: Personification of spring. Footnote 4.21.40: Here we have Gauri as the type of the earth. Footnote 4.21.41: [The Gardens of Adonis, for which see Sir J. Frazer, _Adonis_, _Attis_, _Osiris_, 3rd ed. i. 236 ff.] Footnote 4.21.42: Here the Hindu mixes Persian with his Sanskrit, and produces the mongrel dialect Hindi. Footnote 4.21.43: Takht, Pat, Persian and Sanskrit, alike meaning _board_. Footnote 4.21.44: The Ephesian Diana is the twin sister of Gauri, and can have a Sanskrit derivation in Devianna, ‘the goddess of food,’ contracted Deanna, though commonly Anna-de or Anna-devi, and Annapurna, ‘filling with food,’ or the nourisher, the name applied by ‘the mother of mankind,’ when she places the repast before the messenger of heaven: “Heavenly Stranger, please to taste These bounties, which our Nourisher, from whom All perfect good, unmeasured out, descends, To us for food and for delight, hath caused The earth to yield.” _Paradise Lost_, Bk. v. 397-401. [Diana is the feminine form of Dianus, Janus.] Footnote 4.21.45: ii. 59-64. Footnote 4.21.46: