The hill has
been transferred to the Riwa State (_Central Provinces Gazetteer_
(1870), and _I.G._ (1908), s.v. Amarkantak).
2. The name is misspelled Sohan in the author's text. The Son rises
at Son Munda, about twenty miles from Amarkantak (_A.S.R._, vol. vii,
236).
3. 'Sacrificantibus, cum hic more Romano suovetaurilia daret, ille
equum placando amni adornasset.'
4. [Greek text]--_Iliad_ xx, 73.
5. _Iliad_ xxiii. 140-153.
6. Mr. Crooke observes that the binding was intended to prevent the
object of worship from deserting her shrine or possibly doing
mischief elsewhere, and refers to his article, 'The Binding of a God,
a Study of the Basis of Idolatry', in _Folklore_, vol. viii (1897),
p.134. The name is spelt Johilla in _I.G._ (1908), s.v. Son River.
7. Monier Williams denies the barber's monopoly of match-making. 'In
some parts of Northern India the match-maker for some castes is the
family barber; but for the higher castes he is more generally a
Brahman, who goes about from one house to another till he discovers a
baby-girl of suitable rank' (_Religious Thought and Life in India_,
p.
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