8.  The poor young widow died of grief some months after my visit; her spirits never rallied after the death of her husband, and she never ceased to regret that she had not burned herself with his remains.  The people of Jhansi generally believe that the prince’s mother brought about his death by (dinai) slow poison, and I am afraid that that was the impression on the mind of the poor widow.  The minister, who was entirely on her side, and a most worthy and able man, was quite satisfied that this suspicion was without any foundation whatever in truth. [W.  H. S.]

9.  Considering the fact that, ’till the final decision, the widow of the late chief was to be considered the sovereign’, it would be difficult to justify the anthor’s decision.  The reigning sovereign was clearly entitled to the first visit.  Questions of precedence, salutes, and etiquette are as the very breath of their nostrils to the Indian nobility.

10.  The leaf of Piper betel, handed to guests at ceremonial entertainments, along with the nut of Areca catechu, made up in a packet of gold or silver leaf.

11.  This estimate of the population was probably excessive.  The population in 1891, including the cantonments, was 53,779, and in 1911, 70,208.  The fort of Gwalior and the cantonment of Morar were surrendered by the Government of India to Sindhia in exchange for the fort and town of Jhansi on March 10, 1886.  Sindhia also relinquished fifty-eight villages in exchange for thirty given up by the Government of India, the difference in value being adjusted by cash payments.  The arrangements were finally sanctioned by Lord Dufferin on June 13, 1888.

12.  These buildings are both tombs and temples.  The Gosains of Jhansi do not burn, but bury their dead; and over the grave those who can afford to do so raise a handsome temple, and dedicate it to Siva. [W.  H. S.] The custom of burial is not peculiar to the Saiva Gosains of Jhansi.  It is the ordinary practice of Gosains throughout India.  Many of the Gosains are devoted to the worship of Vishnu.  Burial of the dead is practised by a considerable number of the Hindoo castes of the artisan grade, and by some divisions of the sweeper caste.  See Crooke, ‘Primitive Rites of Disposal of the Dead’ (J.  Anthrop.  Institute, vol. xxix, N.S., vol. ii (1900), pp. 271-92).

13.  This tact lends some support to W. Simpson’s theory that the Hindoo temple is derived from a sepulchral structure.

14.  This chief died of leprosy in May, 1838. [W.  H. S.]

15.  Raghunath Rao was the first of his family invested by the Peshwa with the government of the Jhansi territory, which he had acquired from the Bundelkhand chiefs.  He went to Benares in 1795 to drown himself, leaving his government to his third brother, Sheoram Bhao, as his next brother, Lachchhman Rao, was dead, and his sons were considered incapable.  Sheoram Bhao died in 1815, and his eldest son, Krishan Rao,