Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
These will appear more appropriately in a disquisition on Hindu medals
found by me in India, in the _Transactions of the Royal Asiatic
Society_. [The well-known “Bull and Horseman” type (_IGI_, ii. 142
f.).]
Footnote 4.26.42:
[All traces of those walls have disappeared, but in Jūna or ‘Old’ Pāli
there are some fine temples (_ASR_, xxiii. (1887) 86 ff.).]
Footnote 4.26.43:
The _kharak_ and _pind khajūr_. [_Kharak_ is the stage when the date
becomes red or yellow, according to variety; _pind_, when it is quite
ripe (Watt, _Econ. Dict._ vi. Part i. 205).]
Footnote 4.26.44:
_Mom_ in the language of Egypt signifies ‘wax,’ says some ancient
authority: so it is the usual name of that article in Persian. _Mummy_
is probably thence derived. I remember playing a trick on old Silu,
our _khabardar_ [spy] at Sindhia’s camp, who had been solicited to
obtain a piece of _momiai_ for a chieftain’s wife. As we are supposed
to possess everything valuable in the healing art, he would take no
refusal; so I substituted a piece of indiarubber. [For the virtues of
_momiāi_ see Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of N. India_, ii.
176 ff.]
Footnote 4.26.45:
[Barilla, Watt, _Econ. Prod._ 112 f.]
Footnote 4.26.46:
[_Morinda citrifolia_, _ibid._ 783 f.]
Footnote 4.26.47:
[Madder, _Rubia cordifolia_, _ibid._ 926 f.]
Footnote 4.26.48:
[The Khosa is a Baloch tribe, many of them found in Sind, where, it is
said, they were given lands by the Emperor Humāyūn (_Census Report,
Baluchistan_, 1901, i. 95 f.).]
Footnote 4.26.49:
[Numerous instances of this custom among Bhāts will be found in _BG_,
ix. Part i. 209 ff.]
Footnote 4.26.50:
See Vol. I. p. 561.
Footnote 4.26.51:
[Platts (_Hindustāni Dict._, _s.v._) gives _chāndni_, ‘moonlight’;
_chāndni mār-jāna_, ‘to be moonstruck, paralysed by a stroke of the
moon’; _chāndni karan_, ‘the practice of Brāhmans and others wounding
themselves in order to extort the payment of a debt.’ Here the threat
is fear of the ghost of the man who took his life. Sir G. Grierson
notes that in Gujarāti and Marāthi _chāndi karan_ means ‘to reduce to
white ashes,’ hence ‘to ruin or destroy completely.’ Here _chāndi_,
usually meaning ‘silver,’ means ‘anything white,’ and hence ‘white
ashes.’ This, he suggests, seems to be a more probable explanation
than ‘moonstruck.’]
Footnote 4.26.52:
Mr. Wilder, the superintendent of Ajmer, was deputed by General Sir D.
Ochterlony, in December 1818, to the court of Jodhpur, and was very
courteously received by the Raja.
Footnote 4.26.53:
The sibilant is the _Shibboleth_ of the Rajput of Western India, and
will always detect him. The ‘lion’ (_singh_) of Pokaran is degraded
into ‘asafoetida’ (_hing_); as _Halim Hing_. [Pokaran, 85 miles N.W.
of Jodhpur city, held by the premier noble of the Champāwat clan of
Rāthors.]
Footnote 4.26.54:
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