4. In the Hoshangabad district of the Central Provinces. The
sandstone formation here attains its highest development, and is
known to geologists as the 'Mahadeo sandstones'. The new sanitarium
of Pachmarhi is situated in these hills.
5. It has been long since suppressed.
6. Benares is the principal seat of the worship of Mahadeo (Siva),
but his shrines are found everywhere throughout India. One hundred
and eight of these are reckoned as important. In Southern India the
most notable, perhaps, is the great temple at Tanjore (see chap. 17
of Monier Williams's _Religious Thought and Life in India_).
7. 'This mode of suicide is called Bhrigu-pata, "throwing one's self
from a precipice". It was once equally common at the rock of Girnar
[in Kathiawar], and has only recently been prohibited' (ibid. p.
349).
8. Nagpore (Nagpur) was governed by Maratha rulers, with the title of
Bhonsla, also known as the Rajas of Berar. The last Raja, Raghoji,
died without heirs in 1853. His dominions were then annexed as lapsed
territory by Lord Dalhousie. Sir Richard Jenkins was Resident at
Nagpur from 1810 to 1827.
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