iii. 1676

Vairāt, Bairāt, t., i. 100, iii. 1439

Vaivasvata Manu, i. 24

Vāla tribe, i. 134

Valabhi, ci., i. 253; Sun fountain, 257; era, 100, 269; sack of, 253, 269; Vallabhirāē, i. 122, 250

Vallabhāchārya sect, i. Introd. xxxvii

Vanaraja of Anhilwāra, i. 122, 283

Vānkaner, Bānkaner, t., i. 136

Vasant Panchami. _See_ BASANT PANCHAMI

Vasishtha, the sage, i. 113

Vassal chiefs, duties of, i. 182

Vāti. _See_ BĀTI

Vayān Māta, worship of, i. 283

Vidhyādhar, architect, ii. 1048

Vijayapura, t., i. 253; Vijaiyaseni Bhavāni, worship of, iii. 1684

Vikrama era, i. 104; Vikrama and Urvasi, drama, ii. 715; Vikramāditya, i. 29, 63, 64, 104

Village servants and officials, i. 581

Vindhya mountains, i. 17; Vindhyāvāsin Devi, worship of, iii. 1444

Vīrawāh, t., iii. 1261

Virgin forts, iii. 1674; rape of virgins, ii. 952

Vīsaladeva, Bīsaldeo of Ajmer, i. 104, 164, 297, 299, ii. 791, 889, 893, 909, iii. 1450, 1458

Visar, visarva, a bard’s satire, ii. 742, 1059, iii. 1567, 1682

Vishnu, sleep of, ii. 655, 675, 697, 700; festivals, 699. _See_ CHATURBHUJA

Visvakarma, architect of the Gods, ii. 691

Visvāmitra, the Rishi, i. 34, iii. 1442

Vitthalnāth, Krishna, ii. 641

Vraj, the holy land round Mathura, i. 479, ii. 602, 607

Vyāsa, i. 30, 35

Wachuji of Jaisalmer, ii. 1201

Wajihu-l-mulk, Sahāran Tāk, i. 126

Walīd, the Caliph, i. 270, 284

Wardship, i. 188

Warriors, dead, go to Heaven without funeral rites, ii. 991

Water in the desert, ii. 1152; waterfalls, iii. 1687, 1796

Waugh, Captain P. T., i. 8, 550, ii. 761, iii. 1826

Week, days of, ii. 694

Weighing a Rāja against gold, etc., ii. 590

Wells in the desert, iii. 1282; hot, 1511

Wheat, varieties of, ii. 1106

Widow, marriage, ii. 795

Wilder, Mr., Superintendent of Ajmer, ii. 817, 895, 1093

Wilford, Captain, i. 40, 275, iii. 1458

Witches persecuted by Zālim Singh, ii. 1113, iii. 1615, _see_ JIGAR KHOR; madness due to witchcraft, ii. 1065

Wives discarding their cowardly husbands, ii. 724, 982

Wolves, ii. 771

Women, position of, in North Europe, i. 84; in Rājputāna, i. 84, ii. 709, 735, 746; seclusion of, 710; devotion of, 713; courage of, 727

Woollen manufactures, ii. 1155

Yadu, Yādava tribe, i. 101. _See_ JĀDON

Yama, god of death, ii. 696, 697

Yasodharman, ii. 644, iii. 1785

Yavana tribe, i. 272, ii. 653, 933, 1170; a name applied to Musalmāns, ii. 1005, 1006

Yezdigird of Persia, i. 271

Yoginis, ii. 720. _See_ JOGINI

Youths, deified. _See_ PUTRA

Yueh-chi tribe, i. 78, 128, 131, 256

Yūsufzai tribe, ii. 1207; Yūsufgol, i. 282

Zābita Khān, Bhatti, ii. 1166

Zābulistān, i. 102, 127, 286, 294

Zafar Khān, Tāk, i. 118, 126

Zālim Singh of Kotah, i. 499, iii. 1506, 1530, 1613

Zamīndār, a landholder, a title applied by Mughals to Rājput princes,