110 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Aran, 187&. Dekhan, they show a great approach to that character, especially in the northern part of the district, where they are least numerous; and throughout it they are known asDekhams, in exactly the same way as the Rajputs of Junnar, &c . are called Pardesis. Although one can hardly say that their character is modified, still its shrewd unscrupulousnesa is perhaps more often highly developed among these descend- ants of emigrants and invaders than farther sooth ; while the Rajputs, on the other hand, w-liu are pretty numerous north of theTapti,are generally peaceable agriculturists, much more nearly resembling the Gujar Knnbis, who dwell beside them, than the smart and hardy de- cendants of imperial armies in the Dekhan, or the martial Kshatiiya of Hindustan. Many of them are jtdfils and cltaiidrig of villages; and of these a few enjoy among their own people the titles of * l Rawat" and " Rawal," and some- thing-of the status of petty chieftains. These, of course, retain something of the military character of the race. These cultivating Raj- puts are never called Pardesis in Khandesh. The Solahkhi, or Chalukya clan, is the most numerous. The name is here pronounced and written ' Saluhke,' which is also the Maruthi name of the common Maind (firaculus religlomte), but whether there is any connexion between the bird and the clan I do not know. The Gnjar Kunbis are very numerous throughout most part of Khandesh, and in the north-west the land is almost entirely in their hands. They are skilful agriculturists, and, being fully a match in acnteness and roguery for their countrymen the Wants, are more free from debt— and indeed more apt to have others in theirs — than any other body of cultivators that I know. There are several castes of them not easily distinguishable, but the following are the chief divisions ; — The Re w a s derive their name from the goddess-river Rewa or Narma- da, whom they reverence exceedingly. They are, I believe, identical with the caste called 'Lews' in Ahmadiibad, but inquiries made in 1872 proved them to he free from the practice of infanticide, of which these last are accused. The P a z n i s claim to be a branch of the Re- was, which the latter do not admit. Neither of these eat meat; a third caste, the Do dhe Gu- jars, do — in some villages, at any rate. The Therol Kunbis profess to be immi- grants from a place called Therol, in Hindustan, which I have never been able to identify. There is a place of this name on the Puma river in the Edalabad Peta of Khandesh itself. They also eat meat, and are not so strongly distin- guished from the Marathas as are the three castes of Gujar Kunbis. The late Major Forsyth, in his Report upon the Settlement of Nimdr, published by the Go- vernment of the Central Provinces, alludes cur- sorily to this caste, but also mentions another of the same name, descended from a colony said to have been imported by the Pesw&S from the Dekhan "in 600 carts ;" of whom some settled in what is now British Nimar, and some near Kargund, in Holkar's territory. These were probably T il u r i Kunbis, a race well known in the North Konkan, but not (as far as I am aware) found above the Ghats. I have already mentioned* that some villages on the Tupti are inhabited and cultivated chiefly byNahavisor barbers, and some on the Girna by P a r i t s or washermen. In both cases they are supposed to be immigrants from Hindustan or Central India, and in both they have become much as- similated to their agricultural neighbours. None of these cultivating races care much about the service of Government, cither military or civil. A peculiar race called Aiwa las cultivate the At (Morinda cUrifvlia) and nothing else. I do not know much of them personally, but there is a full account of them in Major Forsyth's Report already quoted. The M il 1 i s are the same here as in the Dekhan, and there are no Lii'iga- yat or Jain cultivators in Khandesh. Rathod Rajpilts from Marw&r ; Mak- ranisj Arabs, Rohillas, and Fathans from the Panjab and Afghanistan are found in the employ of merchants as treasure- guards. The Sixth Sarga. Some time afterwards a son was born to Mu» laraja, named Cham and Raja. From his
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THE DVAIASHARAYA. (Continual from p. 77.) childhood this prince was very clever, and was fond of going to the Rudra Prasada,t where the ' elders assembled, that he might hear the M t The Rudra M&1& Temple at Siddhupur.
