with the flood, they continue to worship mysteries opposed to our own modes of thinking [607]. ----- Footnote 4.22.1: Nauratri may be interpreted the nine days’ festival, or the ‘new night’ [?]. Footnote 4.22.2: “It was natural enough,” says Gibbon, “that the Scythians should adore with peculiar devotion the god of war; but as they were incapable of forming either an abstract idea, or a corporeal representation, they worshipped their tutelar deity under the symbol of an iron cimeter. If the rites of Scythia were practised on this solemn occasion,[4.22.2.A] a lofty altar, or rather pile of faggots, three hundred yards in length and in breadth, was raised in a spacious plain; and the sword of Mars was placed erect on the summit of this rustic altar, which was annually consecrated by the blood of sheep, horses, and of the hundredth captive” (Gibbon’s _Roman Empire_, ed. W. Smith, iv. 194 f.). Footnote 4.22.2.A: Attila dictating the terms of peace with the envoys of Constantinople, at the city of Margus, in Upper Moesia. Footnote 4.22.3: St. Palaye, _Memoirs of Ancient Chivalry_, p. 305. Footnote 4.22.4: Raj Jogi is the chief of the ascetic warriors; the Mahants are commanders [the term being usually applied to the abbot of a monastery]. More will be said of this singular society when we discuss the religious institutions of Mewar. Footnote 4.22.5: The god Krishna is called Kishan in the dialects. Footnote 4.22.6: This is the _sthapana_ of the sword, literally its inauguration or induction, for the purposes of adoration. Footnote 4.22.7: Tripolia, or triple portal. Footnote 4.22.8: [The chief centres of worship of Harsiddh Māta are Gāndhari and Ujjain. It is said that her image stood on the sea-shore, and that she used to swallow all the vessels that passed by (R. E. Enthoven, _Folklore Notes Gujarāt_, 5; _BG_, ix. Part i. 226).] Footnote 4.22.9: [Formerly an important personage, but his authority has now much decreased (_BG_, ix. Part i. 96).] Footnote 4.22.10: On this day sons visit and pay adoration to their fathers. The diet is chiefly of vegetables and fruits. Brahmans with their unmarried daughters are feasted, and receive garments called _chunri_ from their chiefs. [This is a kind of cloth dyed by partly tying it in knots, which escape the action of the dye.] Footnote 4.22.11: The Jogi’s _patra_ is not so revolting as that of their divinity Hara (the god of war), which is the human _cranium_; this is a hollow gourd. Footnote 4.22.12: From _das_, the numeral _ten_; _the_ tenth. [It means ‘the feast that removes ten sins.’] Footnote 4.22.13: