KHAS, OR RHUS.
must bathe from head to foot and make puja ere they begin to dress their dinner, must eat nearly naked in the coldest weather, and cannot be in marching trim again in less than three hours. The former will carry several days' provisions on their backs, the latter would deem such an act intolerably degrading."
The present royal family of Nipal belong to the Sahi, or Sah, branch of the Khas.
