dans le dialecte Caucasien, et _Méd_, en Slave,” and which, as well as _mead_, the drink of the Scandinavian warrior, is from the Sanskrit _Madhu_, a bee [honey]. Hence intoxicating beverage is termed _Madhva_, which supplies another epithet for Krishna, _Madhu_ or _Madhava_. [These speculations possess no value.] Footnote 4.19.74: _Origin of Laws and Government._ Footnote 4.19.75: Literally ‘the giver of food.’ Footnote 4.19.76: _Kanhaiya ka kantha bāndhna_, ‘to bind on [the neck] the chaplet of Kanhaiya,’ is the initiatory step. Footnote 4.19.77: I had one day thrown my net into this lake, which abounded with a variety of fish, when my pastime was interrupted by a message from the regent, Zalim Singh: “Tell Captain Tod that Kotah and all around it are at his disposal; but these fish belong to Kanhaiya.” I, of course, immediately desisted, and the fish were returned to the safeguard of the deity. [The killing of fish at certain lakes and streams is forbidden on account of their harmlessness (_ahimsā_), and thus naturally associated with the cult of a gentle deity like Krishna, and because they are believed to contain the spirits of the dead (Stein, _Rājatarangini_, i. 185; Crooke, _Things Indian_, 221 ff.).] Footnote 4.19.78: A Nishan, or standard, is synonymous with a company. Footnote 4.19.79: Sheopur or Sivapur, the city of Sheo or Siva, the god of war, whose battle-shout is _Har_; and hence one of Vishnu’s epithets, as Hari is that of Krishna or Kanhaiya. Footnote 4.19.80: Radha was the name of the chief of the Gopis or nymphs of Vraj, and the beloved of Kanhaiya. Footnote 4.19.81: In October 1807 I rambled through all these countries, then scarcely known by name to us. At that time Sheopur was independent, and its prince treated me with the greatest hospitality. In 1809 I witnessed its fall, when following with the embassy in the train of the Mahratta leader. [It is now included in the Gwalior State (_IGI_, xxii. 271 f.).] ----- CHAPTER 20