_Meru_ is ‘a [fabulous] mountain’ in Sanskrit; Merawat and Merot, ‘of or belonging to the mountain.’ I have before remarked that the name of the Albanian mountaineer, Mainote, has the same signification. I know not the etymology of _Mina_, of which the Mer is a branch. [Needless to say, whatever the meaning of the title Mer may be, it has no connexion with Mt. Meru. The traditions of the Mers point to Mīna ancestry. For the Mīna tribe see Rose, _Glossary_, iii. 102 ff.; Watson, _Rajputāna Gazetteer_, i. A. 29 ff.] Footnote 4.26.2: I had hoped to have embodied these subjects with, and thereby greatly to have increased the interest, of my work; but just as Lord Hastings had granted my request, that an individual eminently qualified for those pursuits should join me, a Higher Power deemed it fit to deny what had been long near my heart. The individual, John Tod, was a cousin of my own, and possessed an intellect of the highest order. He was only twenty-two years of age when he died, and had only been six months in India. He was an excellent classical scholar, well versed in modern languages and every branch of natural history. His manners, deportment, and appearance were all in unison with these talents. Had it pleased the Almighty to have spared him, this work would have been more worthy of the public notice. [An officer named Tod was murdered at Nāhar Magra, near Udaipur, in May 1804 (Malcolm, _Memoir Central India_, 2nd ed. i. 237).] Footnote 4.26.3: [The Mers are supposed to be a foreign tribe, like the Gurjaras and Mālavas, which passed into Kāthiāwār through the Panjāb, Sind, and N. Gujarāt (_BG_, i. Part i. 136 ff.; Elliot-Dowson i. 519 ff.).] Footnote 4.26.4: I cannot discover by what part of the range the invasion of Mandor was attempted; it might have been the pass we are now in, for it is evident it was not from the frontier of Ajmer. Footnote 4.26.5: _Laj_ is properly ‘shame,’ which word is always used in lieu of honour: _laj rakho_, ‘preserve my shame,’ _i.e._ my honour from shame. Footnote 4.26.6: Parbat Vira. Footnote 4.26.7: The Parihar prince bestowed this epithet merely in compliment. Footnote 4.26.8: _Sindhu Raga._ Footnote 4.26.9: [The sacred Jain mountain in Kāthiāwār.] Footnote 4.26.10: With two (_do_) edges (_dhara_). Footnote 4.26.11: _Sang_ is the iron lance, either wholly of iron, or having plates for about ten feet; these weapons are much used in combats from camels in the Desert. Footnote 4.26.12: ‘Sword’—_Aswar_ in the dialect. Footnote 4.26.13: [The field guardian deity.] Footnote 4.26.14: [For an account of the Mer rebellion in 1820 and its suppression see Watson, _Rājputāna Gazetteer_, i. A. 14.] Footnote 4.26.15: