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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(SEPTEMBER, 1895.
1879.--"Khaki .... the uniform of of Dehli, and became very popular in the army Panjabi soldiers, hence Sikh Infantry." - Fallon, generally during the campaigns of 1857-58.; New Hindustani Dict., 8. v. khak.
being adopted as a convenient material by many
other corps. The original khakee way a stout 1886. - "Khakee from Hindustani khåki,
cotton cloth, but the colour was also used in dusty or dust-coloured from Persian khik. broadcloth. It is said that it is about to be Applied to a kind of light drab or chocolate
introduced into the army generally." -- Yule, culoured cloth. This was the colour of the uniform Iobson-Jobson, 8. v. worn by some of the Punjab Regiments at the seige
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NOTES AND QUERIES. SOME MODERN FORMS OF BHAIRAVA. and Bhairon were connected. How far is Bhai. The name means the terrible ono (Sansksit, rön an object of worship in Panjab villages P Bhairava). His worship is connected with that on the outside of the temple of Siva, in of Siva, and he is regarded as Kali's attendant Thân@sar, already alluded to, there is on one side or servant. He is worshipped under many forins, a picture of Bhairun, and on the other side one of but I have only ascertained the names of five of Hanuman with a mountain in one hand and a club these, which I note below:
(gadhu) in the other. (1) Kal Bhairon - i. e., he who frightens
J. M. Doure, in P. N. and Q. 1883. death.
A SURVIVAL OF MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE (2) Bhat Bhairon - i. e., the driver away of
In Bhiwani, Hissar Distriet, and the neighbour, evil spirite.
hood, there exist a curious custom which I have (3) Bhattuk Bhairon - i. e., the child Bhai. not noticed elsewhere. In anticipation of the
arrival of the bridegroom, here called nudushih, or (4) Lath Bhairon - i.e., Bhairon with the in common parlance nausho, or wh6, literally club.
the "new king" (for the bridegroom is looked (5) Nand Bhairon.
upon as king of the occasion for 2 days, the Outside a temple of Siva at Thanosar, Ambala
term being borrowed by the Hindus of these parts District, there is a picture of Kal Bhairon. He
from the Mysalmans), a short stick, bearing a
cross arm, with five or seven uprights on it, each is black, and holds a decapitated head in one hand. To the east of the river Jamnå he is wor.
a few inches high and rudely cut to imitate the shipped to a considerable extent, offerings of
human figure, the whole thing thus resembling intoxicating liquor being made at his shrine.
the end of a clumsy wooden rake with long teeth, His worshippers drink spirits. Some Vaishnavas
is stuck into the wall above or to one side of the
outer doorway. It is called tauran or tóran.! worship him, they do not, however, offer intoxicat.
When the bridegroom arrives he strikes at the ing liquor, but molasses and milk.
tauran with a stick, and if he smashes the whole Bhairůn is also called Khetrpal (i. e., the
thing to bits, it is considered an excellent omen protector of the fields), under which name he is
Should he not succeed in doing so, it is consider, worshipped with sweets, milk, etc. When a maned that his advent brings but scant luck to the has built house and begins to occupy it, he bouse. Is this a relie of marriage by capture should worship Khetrpal, who is considered to be when the bridegroom had to fight with foes, the the owner of the soil, and who drives away the bride's relatives, before he could win her? It evil spirits (bhúts) that live in the ground. 'He is
looks very like it. I could get no intelligent also worshipped at marriages.
explanation of it on the spot. I noticed two of I found some time ago two shrinelets, one these taurans at the doors of houses on one visit of Hanuman and one of Bhairun on one side of to the city. The bridegroom in Bagar or Bhf. Gaga Pir's mari (shrine), and one of Gorak nâth kaner is called bin and the bride bendri. on the other side. The shrinelets of Hanuman
W. COLDSTREAM in P. N. and Q. 1883. [Bhairon appears to be a favourite godling, and as Kill, or Bhairavt, was of Devf. His many forms suggest wuch is even much venerated by the ignorant Musal
noh venerated by the inorant Mun. I his being a survival of various aboriginal deities whose mins - e. g., he is the chief minister or agent of the personalites and attributes are now confused together. great Musalmin saint Sakhi Sarwar of Nigiha, in the -Ed.) Dera Ghazi Khan District. He generally goes by the It is to be noted that tran is the technical name for namo of Bhairon Jatt, or Bhair a tho chaste, which the huge gateways to Buddhist topes or afpus. See sufficiently shews the estimation he is held in. His pro- Fergusson's History of Indian Architecture, pp. 87, 95, totype, Bhairava, was the terrible form of Biva, just as etc.- ED.
