Notes:
1. December, 1835.
2. The State of Orchha, also known as Tehri or Tikamgarh, situated to
the south of the Jhansi district, is the oldest and the highest in
rank of the Bundela principalities. The town of Tehri is seventy-two
miles north-west of Sagar. The town of Orchha, founded in A.D. 1531,
is 131 miles north of Sagar, and about forty miles from Tehri.
Tikamgarh is the fort of Tehri.
3. A _kharita_ 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 Raja'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.
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