[221] Dowson, "Classical Dictionary," s.v.

[225] Madden, "Journal Asiatic Society Bengal," 1848, p. 600; Hunt, "Popular Romances," 73.

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[226] Buchanan, "Eastern India," iii. 38.

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[227] Frazer, "Golden Bough," ii. 225 sqq.; "Panjâb Notes and Queries," iii. 181 sq.

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[228] Knowles, "Folk-tales from Kashmîr," 10.

[231] Tod, "Annals," i. 67; for other examples see Buchanan, "Eastern India," ii. 131, 352, 478; "Central Provinces Gazetteer," 110.

[234] Tawney, "Katha Sarit Sâgara," i. 8.

[235] "Bombay Gazetteer," iii. 220; "Râjputâna Gazetteer," iii. 65.

[236] Gomme, "Ethnology in Folk-lore," 34 sq.

[239] Ganga Datt Upreti, "Folk-lore of Kumaun," Introduction, vii.

[240] Dalton, "Descriptive Ethnology," 220, 281.

[242] Dalton, "Descriptive Ethnology," 268.

[243] Risley, "Tribes and Castes of Bengal," ii. 58.

[245] Ibbetson, "Panjâb Ethnography," 114; "Oudh Gazetteer," i. 518.

[246] Atkinson, "Himâlayan Gazetteer," ii. 825.

[248] Maclagan, "Panjâb Census Report," 103 sq.

[249] Führer, "Monumental Antiquities," 146.

[250] Sir W. Scott, "Letters on Demonology," 143.

[251] Dalton, "Descriptive Ethnology," 147.

[252] Wilson, "Essays," i. 21; "Bombay Gazetteer," xvi. 568.

[253] Jarrett, "Aîn-i-Akbari," ii. 159; Führer, "Monumental Antiquities," 153.

[256] MacIagan, "Panjâb Census Report," 107.

[259] "Central Provinces Gazetteer," 259.

[260] For the Celtic Mothers see Rhys, "Lectures," 100, 899; for Arabia, Robertson-Smith, "Kinship," 179.

[261] Lubbock, "Origin of Civilization," 146; Starke, "Primitive Family," 17 sqq.; Letourneau, "Sociology," 384.

[262] Benfey, "Panchatantra," i. 41-52; quoted by Tawney, "Katha Sarit Sâgara," ii. 638.

[263] Monier-Williams, "Sanskrit Dictionary, s.v. Mâtrî"; for the Nepâl enumeration, Oldfield, "Sketches," i. 151; for Bombay, "Gazetteer," xvii. 715. In the "Katha Sarit Sâgara" (i. 552), Nârâyanî is their leader. There is a very remarkable story of the gambler who swindled the Divine Mothers (ibid., ii. 574 sqq.).

[264] Campbell, "Notes," 311; "Athenæum," 6th December, 1879; "Folk-lore Record," iii. Part i. 117 sqq.

[266] Atkinson, "Himâlayan Gazetteer," ii. 884.

[267] Cunningham, "Archæological Reports," vii. 158.

[268] Growse, "Mathura," 116, 125; Führer, "Monumental Antiquities," 27, 132.