tral Provinces. The
sandstone formation here attains its highest development, and is
known to geologists as the 'Mahadeo sandstones'. The new sanitarium
of Pachmarhi is situated in these hills.

5. It has been long since suppressed.

6. Benares is the principal seat of the worship of Mahadeo (Siva),
but his shrines are found everywhere throughout India. One hundred
and eight of these are reckoned as important. In Southern India the
most notable, perhaps, is the great temple at Tanjore (see chap. 17
of Monier Williams's _Religious Thought and Life in India_).

7. 'This mode of suicide is called Bhrigu-pata, "throwing one's self
from a precipice". It was once equally common at the rock of Girnar
[in Kathiawar], and has only recently been prohibited' (ibid. p.
349).

8. Nagpore (Nagpur) was governed by Maratha rulers, with the title of
Bhonsla, also known as the Rajas of Berar. The last Raja, Raghoji,
died without heirs in 1853. His dominions were then annexed as lapsed
territory by Lord Dalhousie. Sir Richard Jenkins was Resident at
Nagpur from 1810 to 1827. Nagpur is now the head-quarters of the
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces.

9. 'There is a legend that Siva appeared in the Kali age, for the
good of the Brahmans, as "Sveta", "the white one", and that he had
four disciples, to all of whom the epithet "Sveta" is applied'
(Monier Williams, _Religious Thought and Life in India_, p. 80, note
2). Various explanations of the legend have been offered. Professor
A. Weber is inclined to think that the various references to white
teachers in Indian legends allude to Christian missionaries. The
Mahabharata mentions the travels of Narada and others across the sea
to 'Sveta-dwipa', the 'Island of the White Men', in order to learn
the doctrine of the unity of God. This tradition appears to be
intelligible only if understood to commemorate the journeys of pious
Indians to Alexandria, and their study of Christianity there (_Die
Griechen in Indien_, 1890, p. 34).

10. The Ramlila, a performance corresponding to the mediaeval
European 'miracle-play', is celebrated in Northern India in the month
of Kuar (or Asvin, September-October), at the same time as the Durga
Puja is solemnized in Bengal. Rama and his brother Lachhman are
impersonated by boys, who are seated on thrones in state. The
performance concludes by the burning of a wicker image of Ravana, the
demon king of Lanka (Ceylon), who had carried off Rama's queen,