Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s2.t1.265

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¹ [*Musa champa*, or *Chīni champa*, the finest of all plantains (Watt, *Econ. Prod.* 787).] ² [*Pinus odoratissimus*, the screw-pine, used for its fibre, and “for, perhaps, the most characteristic and most widely used perfume of India” (ibid. 188, 727).] ³ There are sixteen annas to the rupee or half-crown. ⁴ “*Āsmān dikhlānā*” is the phrase of the ‘Fancy’ in these regions for victory; when the vanquished is thrown upon his back and kept in that attitude. [For an account of the Jetti wrestlers of the Telugu country see Thurston, *Castes and Tribes of Southern India*, ii. 456 ff.] ⁵ See an account of this instrument by Colonel Briggs, *Transactions of Royal Asiatic Society*, vol. ii. [See Vol. II. p. 721.]