[4] The King of Vijayanagar had twelve thousand wives: four thousand followed him on foot and served in the kitchen; the same number marched with him on horseback; the remainder in litters, and two or three thousand of them were bound to burn themselves with his corpse (Nicolo Conti, _India in the Fifteenth Century_, part iii, p. 6). In Orissa a palm-leaf record states that one monarch died prematurely just as he had married his sixty-thousandth wife, and a European traveller speaks of a later prince who had four thousand ladies (Sir W. Hunter, _Orissa_. ii, 132 f.). Manucci states that there were more than thirty thousand women in the palace of Shah Jahan at Dheli, and that he usually had two thousand women of different races in his zenana (_Storia de Major_, i. 195, ii. 330). Tippoo Sultan of Mysore married nine hundred women (Jaffur Shurreef, _Qanoon-e-Islam_, 93). [5] There in evidence that infanticide did prevail among some Musalman tribes. Where actual infanticide has disappeared, it has often been replaced by neglect of female infants, except in those castes where, owing to a scarcity of girls, they command a high price.--_Reports Census of India_, 1911, i. 216 ff; _Panjab_, 1911, i. 231. [6] Ludhiana. [7] No record of this proclamation has been traced in the histories of the time. [8] The bride is often selected by praying for a dream in sleep, by manipulating the rosary, or by opening the _Koran_ at random, and reading the first verse which comes under the eye. Another method is to ascertain to which of the elements--fire, air, earth, water--the initials of the names of the pair correspond. If these agree, it is believed that the engagement will be prosperous.--Jaffur Shurreef, _Qanoon-e-Islam_, 37. [9] _Mangni_, 'the asking'. [10] Compare the full account of brides' dress in Mrs. F. Parks, _Wanderings of a Pilgrim_, i. 425. [11] _Jama_. [12] _Dalan_. [13] _Bahu_, properly a son's wife or daughter-in-law: commonly applied to a bride or young wife. [14] Probably the _genda_ or French marigold (_Tagetes erecta_). [15] Sumdun is always the title of the bride's mamma; Bohue, that of the young wife, and, therefore, my thus designating her here is premature. [_Samdhan_ means a connexion by marriage. The mothers of bride and bridegroom are _samdhan_ to each other.] [16] _Kuth, kuttha_, the gum of _Acacia catechu_. [17] The shaddock (_Citrus decumana_) is called _chakoira_; possibly confused with the next. [18] _Kharbuzah, Cucumis melo_. [19] _Ananas, Ananassa saliva_. [20] Guava. [21] _Sharifah, Anona squamosa_. [22] _Kamrak, Averrhoa Carambola_. [23] _Jamun, jaman, Eugenia Jambolana_. [24] _Am, Mangifera indica_. [25] _Falsa, phalsa, Greuria asiatica_. [26] _Kirni, Canthium parviflorum_. [27] _Ber, Zizyphus Jujuba_. [28] _Lichi, Nephelium Lichi_.