“When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife” (Deut. xxi. 10, 11, 12, 13). Footnote 4.24.15: [On head-shaving as a mark of slavery see _Jātaka_, Cambridge trans., v. 125; Anantha Krishna Iyer, _Tribes and Castes of Cochin_, ii. 337; _BG_, ix. Part i. 232.] Footnote 4.24.16: I remember in my subaltern days, and wanderings through countries then little known, one of my Rajput soldiers at the well, impatient for water, asked a woman for the rope and bucket by the uncivil term of _rand_: “_Main Rajputni che_,” ‘I am a Rajputni,’ she replied in the Hara dialect, to which tribe she belonged, “_aur Rajput ki ma cho_,” ‘and the mother of Rajputs.’ At the indignant reply the hands of the brave Kalyan were folded, and he asked her forgiveness by the endearing and respectful epithet of “mother.” It was soon granted, and filling his brass vessel, she dismissed him with the epithet of “son,” and a gentle reproof. Kalyan was himself a Rajput, and a bolder lives not, if he still exists; this was in 1807, and in 1817 he gained his sergeant’s knot, as one of the thirty-two firelocks of my guard, who led the attack, and defeated a camp of fifteen hundred Pindaris. Footnote 4.24.17: _Laws_, ii. 129. Footnote 4.24.18: _Ibid._ iii. 114. Footnote 4.24.19: _Ibid._ iii. 57, 60, 61, 62, 63. Footnote 4.24.20: I have conversed for hours with the Bundi queen-mother on the affairs of her government and welfare of her infant son, to whom I was left guardian by his dying father. She had adopted me as her brother; but the conversation was always in the presence of a third person in her confidence, and a curtain separated us. Her sentiments showed invariably a correct and extensive knowledge, which was equally apparent in her letters, of which I had many. I could give many similar instances. Footnote 4.24.21: