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colour of blood. The Jains were a mercantile community, very much respected, and a people who carried weight in many ways. They had many interesting cus: toms. In the district with which he was connected they used to put their families into ox-carts, and drive them through country by-roads to a very remote village, wbere there was a shrine, or place of ancestral sanctity or venera tion.† He made these remarks to emphasize
*In Hoshiarpur, Punjab, the unwillingness of the Bhabrah women to handle raw vegetables of particular kinds--some probably on account of their red colour. and others, perhaps, because of the insects adhering to them-led them to get their neighbours of less scrupulous views to cut up their raw vegetables, and prepare them for the pot.
Again, the jat and “Bagari" peasantry in the Hissar and Scosa districts are so imbued with the tenets of Jainism in the direction of the preservatior of animal life, that they are seriously annoyed when a sportsman appears in the neighbourhood of their villages to shoot antelope, which there abound.
This remote village is called Fattenpore. He (the speaker) was never able to visit it, but it lies, he believes, twenty to thirty miles north-east of Hoshiarpur, at the base of or in, the Siwalik hills. It contains, not improbably, some very ancient remains.
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