y, under the
impression that we should wish to see the garden; and, as soon as we
entered, the _jets d'eau_ poured into the air their little floods
from a hundred mouths. Our old cicerone told us that, if we would
take the old capital of Orchha in our way, we might there see the
thing in perfection, and amidst the deluges of the rains of Sawan and
Bhadon (July and August) see the lightning and hear the thunder. The
Rajas of this, the oldest principality in Bundelkhand, were all
formerly buried or burned at the old capital of Orchha, even after
they had changed their residence to Tehri. These tombs over the ashes
of the Raja, his wife, and son, are the first that have been built at
Tehri, where their posterity are all to repose in future.

Notes:

1. December, 1835.

2. The State of Orchha, also known as Tehri or Tikamgarh, situated to
the south of the Jhansi district, is the oldest and the highest in
rank of the Bundela principalities. The town of Tehri is seventy-two
miles north-west of Sagar. The town of Orchha, founded in A.D. 1531,
is 131 miles north of Sagar, and about forty miles from Tehri.
Tikamgarh is the fort of Tehri.

3. A _kharita_ is a letter enclosed in a bag of rich brocade,
contained in another of fine muslin. The mouth is tied with a string
of silk, to which hangs suspended the great seal, which is a flat
round mass of sealing-wax, with the seal impressed on each side of
it. This is the kind of letter which passes between natives of great
rank in India, and between them and the public functionaries of
Government. [W. H. S.]

4. _Ante_, Chapter 19, after note [15].

5. The Raja's unwillingness to touch the ground is an example of a
very widespread and primitive belief. 'Two of those rules or taboos
by which . . . the life of divine kings or priests is regulated. The
first is . . . that the divine personage may not touch the ground
with his foot.' This prohibition applies to the Mikado of Japan and
many other sacred personages. 'The second rule is that the sun may
not shine upon the sacred person.' This second rule explains the use
of the umbrella as a royal appendage in India and Burma. (Frazer,
_The Golden Bough_, 1st ed., vol. ii, pp. 224, 225.)

6 _Ante_, Chapter 19, note 3.

7. During the time he remained the guest of the emperor he resided at
Hierapolis, and did not visit Constantinople. The Greeks do not admit
that Shirin was the daughter of Maurice, though a Roman by birth and
a Chr