Quoted in C.P. Gazetteer (1871), Introduction, p. 113.
86
Chhīndwāra Settlement Report.
87
Report on Bastar Dependency, p. 43.
88
Ind. Ant. (1876), p. 359.
89
See para. 65, Tattooing.
90
See para. 41, Religion.
91
Balaghat District Gazetteer, p. 87.
92
Rāwan was the demon king of Ceylon who fought against Rāma, and from whom the Gonds are supposed to be descended. Hence this song may perhaps refer to a Gond revolt against the Hindus.
93
The amaltas or Cassia fistula, which has flowers like a laburnum. The idea is perhaps that its leaves are too small to make a proper leaf-cup, and she will not take the trouble to get suitable leaves.
94
Hislop, Notes, p. 2.
95
Chhindwāra Settlement Report.
96
This article is based on a paper by Pandit Pyāre Lāl Misra.
information furnished by R. B. Hīra Lāl.
