which was still further reduced under the Nagpur Government which succeeded it in the Jubbulpore district in which the pension had been assigned; and it was not thought necessary to increase the amount of this pension when the territory came under our dominion,[13] so that she has had barely enough to subsist upon, about one hundred rupees a month.  She is now about sixty years of age, and still a very good-looking woman.  In her youth she must have been beautiful.  She does not object to appear unveiled before gentlemen on any particular occasion; and, when Lord W. Bentinck was at Jubbulpore in 1833, I introduced, the old queen to him.  He seemed much interested, and ordered the old lady a pair of shawls.  None but very coarse ones were found in the store-rooms of the Governor-General’s representative, and his lordship said these were not such as a Governor-General could present, or a queen, however poor, receive; and as his own ‘toshakhana’ (wardrobe) had gone on,[l4] he desired that a pair of the finest kind should be purchased and presented to her in his name.  The orders were given in her presence and mine.  I was obliged to return to Sagar before they could be carried into effect; and, when I returned in 1835,[15] I found that the rejected shawls had been presented to her, and were such coarse things that she was ashamed to wear them, as much, I really believe, on account of the exalted person who had given them, as her own.  She never mentioned the subject till I asked her to let me see the shawls, which she did reluctantly, and she was too proud to complain.  How the good intentions of the Governor-General had been frustrated in this case I have never learned.  The native officer in charge of the store was dead, and the Governor-General’s representative had left the place.  Better could not, I suppose, be got at this time, and he did not like to defer giving them.

Notes: 

1.  November, 1835.

2.  Sangrampur is in the Jabalpur District, thirty miles north-west of Jabalpur, or the road to Sagar, The village of Jabera is thirty-nine miles from Jabalpur.

3.  Similar lakes, formed by means of huge dams thrown across valleys, are numerous in the Central Provinces and Bundelkhand.  The embankments of some of these lakes are maintained by the Indian Government, and the water is distributed for irrigation.  Many of the lakes are extremely beautiful, and the ruins of grand temples and palaces are often found on their banks.  Several of the embankments are known to have been built by the Chandel princes between A.D. 800 and 1200, and some are believed to be the work of an earlier Parihar dynasty.

4.  A.D. 1658—­1707.  Aurangzeb, though possibly credited with more destruction than he accomplished, did really destroy many hundreds of Hindoo temples.  A historian mentions the demolition of 262 at three places in Rajputana in a single year (A.D. 1679-80) (E. and D. vii, 188).

5.  This name is used as a synonym for Bheraghat, ante, Chapter 1, paragraph 1.  It is written Beragur in the author’s text.  The author, in Ramaseeana, Introduction, p. 77, note, describes the Gauri-Sankar sculpture as being ‘at Beragur on the Nerbudda river’.