2. The State of Orchhâ, also known as Tehrî or Tîkamgarh, situated to the south of the Jhânsî district, is the oldest and the highest in rank of the Bundela principalities. The town of Tehrî is seventy-two miles north-west of Sâgar. The town of Orchhâ, founded in A.D. 1531, is 131 miles north of Sâgar, and about forty miles from Tehrî. Tîkamgarh is the fort of Tehrî. 3. A _kharîtâ_ is a letter enclosed in a bag of rich brocade, contained in another of fine muslin. The mouth is tied with a string of silk, to which hangs suspended the great seal, which is a flat round mass of sealing-wax, with the seal impressed on each side of it. This is the kind of letter which passes between natives of great rank in India, and between them and the public functionaries of Government. [W. H. S.] 4. _Ante_, Chapter 19, after note [15]. 5. The Râjâ's unwillingness to touch the ground is an example of a very widespread and primitive belief. 'Two of those rules or taboos by which . . . the life of divine kings or priests is regulated. The first is . . . that the divine personage may not touch the ground with his foot.' This prohibition applies to the Mikado of Japan and many other sacred personages. 'The second rule is that the sun may not shine upon the sacred person.' This second rule explains the use of the umbrella as a royal appendage in India and Burma. (Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, 1st ed., vol. ii, pp. 224, 225.) 6 _Ante_, Chapter 19, note 3. 7. During the time he remained the guest of the emperor he resided at Hierapolis, and did not visit Constantinople. The Greeks do not admit that Shîrîn was the daughter of Maurice, though a Roman by birth and a Christian by religion. The Persians and Turks speak of her as the emperor's daughter. [W. H. S.] Khusrû Pârvîz (Eberwiz), or Khusrû II, reigned as King of Persia from A.D. 591 to 628. In the course of his wars he took Jerusalem, and reduced Egypt, and a large part of northern Africa, extending for a time the bounds of the Persian empire to the Aegean and the Nile. Khusrû I, surnamed Naushîrvân, or (more correctly) Anushîrvân, reigned from A.D. 531 to 579. His successful wars with the Romans and his vigorous internal administration captivated the Oriental imagination, and he is generally spoken of as Âdil, or The Just. His name has become proverbial, and to describe a superior as rivalling Naushîrvân in justice is a commonplace of flattery. The prophet Muhammad was born during his reign, and was proud of the fact. The alleged expedition of Naushîrvân into India is discredited by the best modern writers. Gibbon tells the story of the wars between the two Khusrûs and the Romans in his forty-sixth chapter, and a critical history of the reigns of both Khusrû (Khosrau) I and Khusrû II will be found in Professor Rawlinson's _Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy_ (London, 1876). European authors have, until recently, generally written the name Khusrû in its Greek form as Chosroes. The name of Shîrîn is also