I went to look at these tombs with Bholî Sukul himself some short time after this conversation, and found that all the people of the town of Sihôrâ and village of Khitolî really believed that the old Lodhî woman had been his brother's wife in a former birth, and had now burned herself as his widow for the fourth time. Her tomb is at Khitolî, and his at Sihôrâ. Notes: 1. _Satî_, a virtuous woman, especially one who burns herself with her husband. The word, in common usage, is transferred to the sacrifice of the woman. 2. The women of Bundêlkhand wear the same costume, a full loin-cloth, as those of the Jubbulpore district. North of the Jumna an ordinary petticoat is generally worn. 3. Suttee was prohibited during the administration of Lord William Bentinck by the Bengal Regulation xvii, dated 4th December, 1829, extended in 1830 to Madras and Bombay. The advocates of the practice unsuccessfully appealed to the Privy Council. Several European officers defended the custom. A well-written account of the suttee legislation is given in Mr. D. Boulger's work on Lord William Bentinck in the 'Rulers of India' series. 4. Whenever it is practicable, Hindoos are placed on the banks of sacred rivers to die, especially in Bengal. 5. For explanation of this phrase, see the following story of the Lodhî woman, following note [14], in this chapter. The name is abnormal. _Upadhya_ is a Brahman title meaning 'spiritual preceptor'. Brahmans serving in the army sometimes take the title Singh, which is more properly assumed by Râjpûts or Sikhs. 6. An instance of such a prophecy, of a favourable kind, will be found at the end of this chapter; and another, disastrously fulfilled, in Chapter 21, _post_. 7. Rîwâ (Rewah) is a considerable principality lying south of Allahabad and Mirzapore and north of Sâgar. The chiefs are Baghêl Râjpûts. The proper title of the Udaipur, or Mêwâr, chief is Rânâ, not Raja. See 'Annals of Mewar', chapters 1-18, pp. 173-401, in the Popular Edition of Tod's _Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan_ (Routledge, 1914), an excellent and cheap reprint. The original quarto edition is almost unobtainable. 8. The masculine form of the word satî (suttee). 9. Well known to tourists as the seat of the Mahârâja of Benares. 10. 'of' in text. 11. In the author's time no regular census had been taken. His rough estimate was excessive. The census figures, including the cantonments, are: 1872, 175,188; 1901, 209,331; 1911, 203,804. 12. This Benares story, accidentally omitted from the author's text, was printed as a note at the end of the second volume. It has now been inserted in the place which seems most suitable. Interesting and well-told narratives of several suttees will be found in Bernier, _Travels in the Mogul Empire_, pp. 306-14, ed. Constable. See also Dubois, _Hindu Manners_, &c., 3rd ed. (1906), chapter 19. 13. Widows are not always so well treated. Their life in Lower Bengal, especially, is not a pleasant one,