1 198 APPENDIX — SUCCESSIONS.
2 for themselves a permanent possession. The Malwa
3 Chiefs, are the Puteeala, Jheend, and Naba Rajahs, and
4 the Bhaee of Khytul. The three first named are descen-
5 dants of a common ancestor named PHOOL,who was Chou-
6 dhuree of a village near Balenda, and are from him often
7 collectively styled the Phoolkeean. The progenitor of the
8 Bhaee of Khytul, having rendered some service to one of
9 the Sikh Gooroos, the appellation of Bhaee, or brother,
10 was conferred upon him as a mark of distinguished appro-
11 bation ; and the persons of all the Bhaees are conse-
12 quently held in a degree of respect above their fellows.
13 The practice of succession to property, both real and
14 personal, amongst the Manjhee Siughs, is by Bhaee-
15 bund and Choonda-hund. The first being an equal
16 distribution of all lands, forts, tenements, and moveables,
17 among sons, with, in some instances, an extra or double
18 share to the eldest termed " Khurch-Sirdaree," assimi-
19 lating to the double share in the law of Moses.* Choonda-
20 bund is an equal division among mothers for their
21 respective male issue.f
22 "When aManjheeSingh dies, leaving no male offspring,
23 his brothers, or his nephews of the full blood, assume the
24 right of succession, to which the widow or widows
25 become competitors. According to the Shasters, (if they
26 • Deuteronomy, Chap, xxi, v. 15, 16, 17.
27 t This practice of Choonda-buiul is apreeable to the Hindoo Law.
28 Vyara says " If there be many eons of ope man, by different mothers,
29 but in equal number and alike by class, a distribution amongst the
30 mothers is approved to Brihaspati." If there be many springs from one,
31 alike in number and in class, but born of rival mothers, partition must
32 be made by tliem, according to law, by the allotment of shares to the
33 mothers.