[314] Reference may be made to _The Golden Bough_ for the full explanation and ill.u.s.tration of this superst.i.tion.
[315] _Rajasthan_, ii. pp. 320, 321.
[316] _History of the Marathas_, i. p. 28.
[317] See article.
[318] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 466.
[319] Malcolm, _Memoir of Central India_, i. p. 518.
[320] _An Account of the Bhils, J.A.S.B._ (1875), p. 369.
[321] _Hyderabad Census Report_ (1891), p. 218.
[322] _The Khandesh Bhil Corps_, by Mr A. H. A. Simc.o.x.
[323] Forbes, _Rasmala_, i. p. 104.
[324] _Memoir of Central India_, i. pp. 525, 526.
[325] _Ibidem_, i. p. 550.
[326] _Hobson-Jobson_, art. Bhil.
[327] _An Account of the Bhils_, p. 369.
[328] _The Khandesh Bhil Corps_, p. 71.
[329] _Ibidem_, p. 275.
[330] _Eugenia jambolana._
[331] _Soymida febrifuga._
[332] _Phyllanthus emblica._
[333] _Terminalia belerica._
[334] _Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat_, p. 309.
[335] See article Kunbi.
[336] _Sorghum vulgare._
[337] _Loc. cit._ p. 347.
[338] _Western India._
[339] _Asiatic Studies_, 1st series, p. 174.
[340] _Asiatic Studies_, 1st series, p. 352.
[341] _Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat_, p. 302.
[342] _Bombay Gazetteer_, vol. xii. p. 87.
[343] _An Account of the Bhils_, pp. 362, 363.
[344] _Account of the Mewar Bhils_, pp. 357, 358.
[345] Forbes, _Rasmala_, i. p. 113.
[346] _Nimar Settlement Report_, pp. 246, 247.
[347] Sir G. Grierson, _Linguistic Survey of India_, vol. ix. part iii. pp. 6-9.
[348] This article is based mainly on Captain Forsyth"s _Nimar Settlement Report_, and a paper by Mr. T. T. Korke, Pleader, Khandwa.
[349] _Eugenia jambolana._
[350] _Bauhinia racemosa._
[351] _Settlement Report_ (1869), para. 411.
[352] Mr. Montgomerie"s _Nimar Settlement Report_.
[353] _Memoir of Central India_, ii. p. 156.
[354] Crooke"s _Tribes and Castes_, art. Bhishti.
[355] Elliott"s _Memoirs of the North-Western Provinces_, i. p. 191.
[356] Crooke"s _Tribes and Castes_, ii. p. 100.
[357] Rudyard Kipling, _Barrack-Room Ballads_, "Gunga Din."
[358] Thacker and Co., London.
[359] This article is mainly compiled from papers by Mr. Pandurang Lakshman Bakre, pleader, Betul, and Munshi Pyare Lal, ethnographic clerk.
[360] This article is compiled partly from Colonel Dalton"s _Ethnology of Bengal_ and Sir H. Risley"s _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_; a monograph has also been furnished by Mr. B. C. Mazumdar, pleader, Sambalpur, and papers by Mr. A. B. Napier, Deputy Commissioner, Raipur, and Mr. Hira Lal.
[361] _Ethnology of Bengal_, p. 140.
[362] _Linguistic Survey_, vol. xiv. _Munda and Dravidian Languages_, p. 217.
[363] Page 142.