6. See _ante_, Chapter 4, note 6, for remarks on the supposed
prophetic gifts of sati women.
7. Such feelings of resignation to the Divine will, or fate, are
common alike to Hindoos and Musalmans.
8. 'One of a wife's duties should be to keep all bad omens out of her
husband's way, or manage to make him look at something lucky in the
early morning. . . . Different lists of inauspicious objects are
given, which, if looked upon in the early morning, might cause
disaster' (M. Williams, _Religious Thought and Life in India_, p.
397).
9. Dr. Spry died in 1842, and his estate was administered by the
author. The doctor's works are described _ante_, Chapter 14, note 16.
CHAPTER 22
Interview with the Raja who marries the Stone to the Shrub--Order of
the Moon and the Fish.
On the 8th,[1] after a march of twelve miles, we readied Tehri, the
present capital of the Raja of Orchha.[2] Our road lay over an
undulating surface of soil composed of the detritus of the syenitic
rock, and poor, both from its quality and want of depth. About three
miles from our last territory we entered the boundary of the Orchha
Raja's territory, at the village of Aslon, which has a very pretty
little fortified castle, built upon ground slightly elevated in the
midst of an open grass plain.
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