The Tribes and Castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, Bind 3

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Side 72 - Mahants wear a small scull cap: the frontal marks, if worn, are usually those of the Vaishnava sects, or they make a streak with Sandal, or Gopichandan along the ridge of the nose: a necklace and rosary of Tulasi are also worn by them, but all these outward signs are considered of no importance, and the inward man is the only essential point to be attended to 1.
Side 285 - Many have high noses and oval faces, and young girls are at times met with who have delicate and regular features, finely chiselled straight noses, and perfectly formed mouths and chins. The eyes, however, are seldom so large, so bright and gazelle-like as those of pure Hindu maidens, but I have met strongly marked Mongolian features, and some are dark and coarse like the Santhals.
Side 263 - The Khatris are staunch Hindus, and it is somewhat singular that, while giving a religion and priests to the Sikhs, they themselves are comparatively seldom Sikhs.
Side 263 - India,' is, in my judgment, one of the most useful portions of that work. The following extract is too important to be curtailed. "Trade," he says, "is their main occupation ; but in fact they have broader and more distinguishing features.
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Side 72 - Rdmdvats especially, a friendly intercourse and political alliance: it is no part of their faith, however, to worship any Hindu deity, or to observe any of the rites or ceremonials of the Hindus, whether orthodox or schismatical; such of their members as are living in the world conform outwardly to all the usages of their tribe and caste, and some of them even pretend to worship the usual divinities , although this is considered as going rather farther than is justifiable.
Side 57 - ... by the force of mental abstraction, to effect a union between the portion of vital spirit residing in the body and that which pervades all nature, and is identical with SIVA, considered as the supreme being and source and essence of all creation. When this mystic union is effected, the Yogi is liberated in his living body from the clog of material incumbrance, and acquires an entire command over all worldly substance.
Side 367 - His impurity, like that of the barber, washerman, and dyer, springs solely from the natufe of his employment ; perhaps because it is a dirty one, but more probably because black is a colour of evil omen, though on the other hand iron has powerful virtue as a charm against the evil eye. It is not impossible that the necessity under which he labours of using bellows made of cowhide...
Side 264 - Hazara, but also as he might steal a milchcow, or as Jews might, I dare say, be carried off in the Middle Ages with a view to render them profitable.

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