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[Footnote 23: The marriage-stone, as in the Hindu rite is quite common. Of lesser superstitions the tab[=u), analogous to the avoidance of unlucky names among the Hindus, may be mentioned. Friendship among girls is cemented by a religious ceremony. After this, among the Or[=ajons, the two avoid each other's name, calling each other only 'my flower' or 'my meet-to-smile' (Rowney). In this tribe exogamy is 'more respectable,' but not necessary. The girls are generally bought, and have fixed prices, but we have seen the customary price (twenty-five pigs) cited only for Assam among the Meeris. If one man cannot pay so much, several unite, for polyandry prevails all through the northern tribes (URAS. XI. 38), and even in the Punj[ra]b.]
[Footnote 24: Sherring (JRAS. V. 376) says decidedly that Bh[=a]rs, or Bh[=a]rats, and Ch[=i]rus cannot be Aryans. This article is one full of interesting details in regard to the high cultivation of the Bh[=a]rat tribe. They built large stone forts, immense subterranean caverns, and made enormous bricks for tanks and fortifications (19 X 11 X 2-1/2 inches), the former being built regularly to east and west (surajbedi). One of their chief cities lay five miles west of Mirz[=a]pur, and covered several miles, entirely surrounding the Puranic city of Vindhyacal, built in the midst of it. Six or seven hundred years ago the Bh[=a]rs held Oude and Benares. Carnegy's opinion is given in his Races, Tribes, and Castes of the Province of Oude (Oudh). The Bh[=a]rs, says Elliot, Chronicles of Oonayo, built all the towns not ending in pur, mow, or [=a]b[=ald (Hindu, Mongol, Mohammedan). Their sacra (totems?) are the bamboo, beltree, tortoise, and peacock.]
[Footnote 25: JRAS. XII. 229; IA. XXII. 293.]
[Footnote 26: Among the southern Koders the dolmen form grave-stones; perhaps the religious employment of them in this wise led to the idea of
