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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1875.
Dekhan, they show a great approach to that practice of infanticide, of which these last are character, especially in the northern part of the accused. district, where they are least numerous; and The Pâznis claim to be a branch of the Rethroughout it they are known as Dokhanis, in was, which the latter do not admit. Neither of exactly the same way as the Rajpûts of Junnar, these eat meat; a third caste, the Dodhe Gu&c. are called Pardesis. Although one can jars, dorin some villages, at any rate. hardly say that their character is modified, still The Therol Kunbis profess to be immiits shrewd unscrupulousness is perhaps more grants from a place called Therol, in Hindustan, often highly developed among these descend which I have never been able to identify. ants of emigrants and invaders than further There is a place of this name on the Pärna river south; while the Rajputs, on the other hand, in the Edalâbâd Petâ of Khandesh itself. They who are pretty numerous north of the Tapti, are also eat meat, and are not so strongly distingenerally peaceable agriculturists, much more guished from the Marathâs as are the three nearly resembling the Gujar Kunbis, who castes of Gujar Kunbis. dwell beside them, than the smart and hardy de- The late Major Forsyth, in his Report upon cendants of imperial armies in the Dekhan, or the Settlement of Nimár, published by the Gothe martial Kshatriya of Hindustân. Many of verament of the Central Provinces, alludes curthem are påțils and chaudris of villages; and sorily to this caste, but also mentions another of these a few enjoy among their own people of the same name, descended from a colony the titles of " Rawat" and "Rawal," and some- said to have been imported by the Peśwás thing of the status of petty chieftains. These, from the Dekhan "in 600 carts ;" of whom some of course, retain something of the military settled in what is now British Nimâr, and some character of the race. These cultivating Raj- near Kargûnd, in Holkar's territory. These were puts are never called Pardesis in Khandesh. probably Tilûri Kunbis, a race well known The Solaikhi, or Chalukya clan, is the most in the North Konkan, but not as far as I am numerous. The name is here pronounced and aware) found above the Ghâts. I have already written Salunke,' which is also the Marathi mentioned that some villages on the Tậpti are name of the common Maina (Graculus religiosus), inhabited and cultivated chiefly by Na ha visor but whether there is any connexion between the barbers, and some on the Girna by Parits or bird and the clan I do not know.
washermen. In both cases they are supposed The Gujar Kunbîs are very numerous to be immigrants from Hindustan or Central throughout most part of Khandesh, and in the India, and in both they have become much asnorth-west the land is almost entirely in their similated to their agriculteral neighbours. None hands. They are skilful agriculturists, and, of these cultivating races care much about the being fully a match in acuteness and roguery service of Government, either military or civil. for their countrymen the Waņis, are more free A peculiar race called Alwâlâs cultivate from debt-and indeed more apt to have others the Al (Morinda citrifolia) and nothing else. I in theirs-than any other body of cultivators do not know much of them personally, but there that I know. There are several castes of them is a full account of them in Major Forsyth's not easily distinguishable, but the following are Report already quoted. The Malis are the same the chief divisions :-The Rewas derive their here as in the Dekhan, and there are no Linganame from the goddess-river Rewa or Narma yat or Jain cultivators in Khandesh, da, whom they reverence exceedingly. They Rathod Rajpûts from Marwår; Mak. are, I believe, identical with the caste called rânis; Arabs; Rohillâs, and Path â ns 'Lewa' in Ahmadabad, but inquiries made from the Panjab and Afghanistân are found in in 1872 proved them to be free from the the employ of merchants as treasure-guards.
THE DVALASHARAYA. (Continued from 77)
. The Sixth Sarga.
childhood this prince was very clever, and was Some time afterwards a son was born to Mo. fond of going to the Rudra Prasada, t where the laraja, named Châ mand Raja. From his elders assembled, that he might hear the MahaInd. Ant. vol. III. p. 76.
+ The Radra Mala Temple at Siddhapur.
