[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.