[Nawalgarh, about 30 miles N.W. of Khandela; Khetri, about the same distance N.E.; Baswa, about 85 miles N.N.W. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.6.2: His second son, Raghunath, had Kuchor in appanage. Footnote 9.6.3: [The Amāvas, or last day of the month, is unlucky for all undertakings, and is kept as a day of rest by traders, shopkeepers, and craftsmen. If the last day falls on a Monday, it is specially taboo, and people bathe in a river or pool and make gifts to Brāhmans (_BG_, ix. Part i. 397). Pūs falls in January and February.] Footnote 9.6.4: [Close to the Jodhpur frontier, about 40 miles N.W. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.6.5: The ministers of religion were the only clerks amongst this race of depredators, and they were not behind the most illiterate in cupidity, and to say the truth, courage, when required; and as for skill in negotiation, a Mahratta Brahman stands alone; keen, skilful, and imperturbable, he would have baffled Machiavelli himself. Footnote 9.6.6: _Ghus_ is literally ‘a bribe’; and no treaty or transaction was ever carried on without this stipulation. So sacred was the _ghus_ held, from tyrant usage, that the Peshwa ministers, when they ruled the destinies of their nation, stipulated that the _ghus_ should go to the privy purse! Footnote 9.6.7: Barwatia is ‘one expatriated,’ from '_bar_' [_bāhir_] ‘out of,’ and _watan_, ‘a country,’ and it means either an exile or an outlaw, according to the measure of crime which caused his banishment from his country. [See Vol. II. p. 797.] Footnote 9.6.8: [About 20 miles N. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.6.9: [About 30 miles N. of Jaipur city.] Footnote 9.6.10: [See Vol. II. p. 665, for an account of this festival.] Footnote 9.6.11: _Nūn_ or _lūn_, ‘salt,’ and _dābnā_, ‘to dip, bespatter, or sprinkle.’ [Salt, apparently from its power of checking decay, is used in magical rites, and is believed to be efficacious for scaring evil spirits.] ----- CHAPTER 7