[The 44th Merwāra Infantry, formerly known as the Merwāra Battalion, formed in 1822, did good service in the Mutiny of 1857, and in the Afghān campaign of 1878 (Watson, _Gazetteer_, i. A. 119 ff.; Cardew, _Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army_, 338 ff.)]. Footnote 4.26.16: [No class of Brāhmans or Rājputs, claiming respectability, now permits widow marriage.] Footnote 4.26.17: [Nāgda, near the shrine of Eklingji, one of the most ancient places in Mewār.] Footnote 4.26.18: [Elsewhere known as Khanjarīt or Khanjan, a well-known bird of omen.] Footnote 4.26.19: This term is a compound of _bāhar_ and _watan_, literally ‘ex patria.’ Footnote 4.26.20: He ruled from A.D. 1094 to 1143. Footnote 4.26.21: [_Ānwal_, _āonla_, _Phyllanthus emblica_; _bāwal_, _babūl_, _Acacia arabica_; _karīl_, _Capparis aphylla_; _āk_, _Calotropis gigantea_; _pīpal_, _Ficus religiosa_.] Footnote 4.26.22: [_Bar_, _Ficus bengalensis_; _jawās_, _Hedysarum alhagi_.] Footnote 4.26.23: See p. 325. Footnote 4.26.34: An alp, or spot in these mountainous regions, where springs, pasture, and other natural conveniences exist. Footnote 4.26.35: [About seventy miles south-south-west of Jodhpur city.] Footnote 4.26.36: [Bhatinda, now Govindgarh, in the Patiāla State (_IGI_, xii. 343). The author’s accounts of Gūga or Gugga are contradictory (see Index, _s.v._). For this famous saga see Temple, _Legends of the Panjāb_, i. 121 ff., iii. 261 ff. The cult of the hero has passed as far south as Gujarāt, his festival being held on 9th dark half of Bhādon (Aug.-Sept.), known as Gūga navami (_BG_, ix. Part i. 524 f.).] Footnote 4.26.37: Ferishta, or his copyist, by a false arrangement of the points, has lost Nadole in Buzule, using the ب for the ن and the ذ for the د. [It was Kutbu-d-dīn who, on his way to Gujarāt, passed the forts of “Tilli and Buzule” (Dow, ed. 1812, i. 147). Briggs (Ferishta i. 196) writes “Baly and Nadole.” In the _Tāju-l-Ma-āsir_ of Hasan Nizāmi the names are given as “Pāli and Nandūl” (Elliot-Dowson ii. 229). This illustrates the difficulty of tracing place names in the Muhammadan historians.] Footnote 4.26.38: [Towards the end of the tenth century, Lākhan or Lakshman Singh, a younger brother of Wākpatirāj, the Chauhān Rāja of Sāmbhar, settled at Nādol, and his descendants ruled the territory till their defeat by Kutbu-d-dīn Ibak in 1206-10 (Erskine iii. A. 181 f.).] Footnote 4.26.39: [The temple of Mahāvīra contains three inscriptions, dated A.D. 1609, recording its construction from charitable funds. Garrett disputes the author’s reference to Caesar, as the buildings are not superior to many others in Rājputāna (_ASR_, xxiii. (1887) 93).] Footnote 4.26.40: See Appendix, No. VII.] Footnote 4.26.41: