1 CIAUFIRI&TAUII.
2 handkerchief and some other ornaments and articles of dress for the bride,
3 i^d gives a coir, mod perhaps » dmre to' the.bfidcgrooni. The girl is tbcn
4 KmI out iritli ft faidctt on hsr back doutiitui^ 'fiiiits and wahuito pnpmd
5 ynA hau^f and (if the family can afford it), ft silver cup. In this manner
6 she proceed^ to her husband*s lioiise, the whole village attending, dancing
7 and siugiug- Some days afterwards, thp father receives the pric^ of his
8 daughter, which is said sometimes to amuunt to twenty cows. The priests
9 have no share in the ceremony. The women do all the drudgery of die
10 family. Dhunpat Baiy states that tb^ even till the land. Foljganj ia
11 aliowed. Tliere is no conoealment of iponaeo. Adnlteiyisnot thoqghtmiicii
12 of, though there is a poiualunent for it. ,
13 Besides their wives, the rich Canfii have male and female slaves. These
14 are all Caufirs (tor they take no prisoners in their wars with Mussulmans).
15 Some of them are laikeu in battle from tribes with which they are at war, aud
16 etkeis stolen ftom those with whom they are at peace, but the greater part
17 ace people of their own tribes it beuog quite, oommon fyt poweffiil men tp*
18 seize on the duUran of -wesk oiies and neW them to the Mussuboans or keep
19 ibem for their own use : a person wlio loses his relations is soon made a
20 slave. The slaves who are retained in the tribe, however, are not ill tised,
21 though not exactly on a looUufi with the tre^ people pf the tamiiy they
22 belong to. ' . ',
23 V The Ibaerab of the Caiifin difibr mndi from tboee of odier nalaooi^
24 ^K^ben a person dle^ he is dressed in bos best dothes and extended en abed
25 on whidi his arms are laid by bis side. Thu is oenmd sboot by some of bi^
26 rdations, while the rest sing and dance round it^ the men 'performing a
27 sham-fipht, but the women lamenting: from time to time the body is set
28 down, aud the women we^ over it. At length it is siiut up in a coffin and
29 'deposited in the open air under the shade of treei^ or in sooae oUier suitable
30 <eitiiati(ita. Every fimeial oondudes with an entertainmmri; ftnd onee ft yesr
31 » ftast is given in memory of tte'deoeeied, and some Ibod is eaqMieedAr-iiis
32 manes, which are invoked to come and partake. It has been mentioned that
33 some attain to the rjmk of gods after their death ; there is another way of
34 securing postimmous reputation, by the erection of a gate near the way side.
35 It is but a simple structure, consisting of four beams and a i'ew yank of
36 -masoniy, and is of no use) but it is called after the name «f the ftunder,
37 and the e^(^ent of thb honour must be purdiased fay many ftmts to the
38 inUsge* A. strange account is given by Dhunput Roy of their ceramemes of
39 ,^ondolenoe: ftpetion who vishs another thai has lost a xehrtieq, throwt hie
40 la
41 Digitized by GoOgle