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2 Derajat; Khaiiala, 371, and Savnai, 3 in Jalandhar ; Rababi, 109 in
3 Lahore. Besides these numbers, the above terms, as well as Naqarehi, have
4 all been included with Mirasi in the offices of one or more divisions. The
5 last three are simply words meaning players upon the flageolet, the flute, and
6 the kettle drum. The Dhadhi appears only to sing and not to play any
7 instrument, and in the Derajat at least is said not to intermarry with the Dum,
8 so probably he should not have been included. The Khariala is said to be a
9 sort of Mirasi, but I have no further information concerning him. The two
10 largest tribes returned for Mirasis seem to be the Chunhar with 13.403, and
11 the Kalet with 4,897 persons. The detailed tables of clans will, when publish-
12 ed, give complete information on the subject.
13 528. The Jogi, Rawal and Nath (Caste Nos. 40 and 80).— The figures
14 under the head Jogi include two very distinct classes of persons. First are the
15 Jogis proper, a regular religious order of Hindus, which includes both the
16 Auo'ar Jogis and the Kanphatta Jogi ascetics, who are followers of Gorakhnath
17 and priests and worshippers of Siva. These men are fully as respectable as
18 the Bairagis, Gosains, and other religious orders. So far as the sub-divisional
19 tables help us, the present figm-es include 9,143 of this class, of whom 5,769 are
20 males, but the real number is probably greater. They are all Hindus. They
21 *P. 228 have been discussed in the earlier portion of this section, at page 286.* The
22 second class is that miscellaneous assortment of low-caste faqin and fortune-
23 tellers, both Hindu and Musahnan but chiefly Musalman, who are commonly
24 known as Jogis. The word Jogi or Yogi means a student of the Joga school of
25 philosophy, which teachs how, by suppression of the breath, mental abstrac-
26 tion, and the like, to obtain supernatural powers of divination, second sight,
27 and so forth ;' and the result is that every rascally beggar who pretends to be
28 able to tell fortunes, or to practise astrological and necromantic arts in however
29 small a degree, Iniys himself a di-um and calls himself and is called by others
30 a Jogi. These men include all the Musalmans, and probably a part of the
31 Hindus of the eastern districts who have been returned as Jogis. They are a
32 thoroughly vagabond set, and wander about the country beating a drum and
33 begging, practising surgery and physic in a small way, vn-iting charms, telling
34 fortunes, and practising exorcism and divination ; or, settling in the villages,
35 eke out their earnings from these occupations by the offerings made at the
36 local shrines of the malevolent godlings or of the Saiyads and other Musalman
37 saints (see sections 216 and 226) ; for the Jogi is so impui-e that he will eat
38 the offerings made at any shrine. These people, or at least the Musalman
39 section of them, are called in the centre of the Panjab Rawals, or sometimes
40 Jogi-Rawals, from the Arabic Bammdl a diviner, which again is derived from
41 ramal " sand " with which the Ai-ab magicians divine ; and the two sets of
42 flgures must be taken together, always remembering that those for Jogis
43 include respectable Jogis, while those for Rawals, who are all Musalmans, do
44 not. The Jogi-Rawals of Kathiawar are said to be esorcisers of evil spirits,
45 and to worship a deity called Korial. In Sialkot the Jogis pretend to avert
46 storms fi'om the ripening crops by plunging a drawn sword into the field or
47 a knife into a mound, sacrificing goats, and accepting suitable offerings.
48 Mr. Benton writes: — "The Jogi is a favourite character in Hindustani
49 " fiction. He there appears as a jolly playful character of a simple disposition.
50 > See WUson's Sects of the Sindus, pages 130^ for a very interesting account of both classes
51 * f Jogis, and for references to further authorities.