[1] A dish made of rice and lentils cooked together with clarified
butter or ghee, and then boiled.
[2] Another native dainty made with sugar, etc.
[3] This is a well-directed piece of sarcasm against native
horse-dealers who drug their horses; also against would-be judges
of horse-flesh.
[4] The smallest current or shell money of India.
[5] A than is a length of cloth which varies from five yards to twenty
yards, or more.
[6] This story was told by a Mahamedan woman, and I should think it
was of Mahamedan origin, as no Hindu would even distantly refer to
the slaughter of a cow, and such a story told by a Mahamedan to a
Hindu would cause intense ill-feeling.
[7] An Indian pipe.
[8] To spit upon a man in the East is considered the greatest of
indignities.
[9] The Begum's property is now in possession of the Jesuits, and
the priest who lives there is greatly beloved of the people.