6 The Religion of tho Voila.

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members of the four originle otmtos. Such Illiti’l”i£l§.ft.ff% are now strictly taboo. Gradually, tiii?tf1‘fiili.lt.ffi of occupation, traclo, and profcs-tsion. and. to :1. Cllfilfiitlm’» ablo extent also, difference of gmgmplzy. Llfitilliiihlifiil tltomsolvos as tho basis-z of mam fillfilll’lé’flitlll. until tlm number of camtos bocmno logic)”. Al tlm prowut time there are nearly moo llmlmum tattoo alarm. According to an. intolligcnt llimlu olmorvor of our own day1 the Sflrttsvz’tltt llralmtixm of tho Paojab alone number 469 tribes; tho Kshtttriytm ato split up into 590; the: Vaigyas and gficix*:ts intro oven more. There is a. Hindustani provorb, “eight: Brahmins, nine kitchens.” In the matter of form! and intermarriage all cattos are now complotoly shut off one from the other. A. tailor may not, as is; 111:: custom with all other peoples, invite: hi5 nuiglilmr. an honest shoemaker, to share his humblo fora. “.l‘lu: son of the shoemaker may not woo zmcl wod tlm blooming daughter of the harbor. Even a. I‘llllmt‘ deviation, some new trick of trade, will at (mot: brood a new caste. In certain parts; of India. fislmnfollt who knit the meshes of their nets from right to loft: may not intermarry with them that knit from loft to right. In Cuttack, “the most southerly district of

1 Rai Bahadur Lala Baij Nath, BA... of the Northuwostorn Provium Judicial Service, and Fellow of the University of Allahabad, in big very interesting little book. Hinduism, Aucz’m! am! [Madam (Meemt,

1889), p. 9.