Part 65

Tribes and Castes, art. Panwar.

Blockmann, i. 252, quoted by Crooke.

Ibbetson, P.C.R., para. 448.

His name, Lakshma Deva, is given in a stone inscription dated A.D. 1104-1105.

The inscription is said to be in one of the temples in Winj Basini, near Bhandak, in the Devanagri character in Marathi, and to run as follows: "Consecration of Jagnarayan (the serpent of the world). Dajianashnaku, the son of Chogneka, he it was who consecrated the god. The Panwar, the ruler of Dhar, was the third repairer of the statue. The image was carved by Gopinath Pandit, inhabitant of Lonar Mehkar. Let this shrine be the pride of all the citizens, and let this religious act be notified to the chief and other officers."

A few Panwar Rajputs are found in the Saugor District, but they are quite distinct from those of the Maratha country, and marry with the Bundelas. They are mentioned in the article on that clan.

March.

Rice boiled with milk and sugar.

Village headman.

Patwari or village accountant.

Introduction to the History of Religion, p. 59.

Diospyros tomentosa.

Gamble, Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 461.

Balaghat District Gazetteer.

P. 62, quoting from Bringand, Les Karens de la Birmanie, Les Missions Catholiques, xx. (1888), p. 208.

Tod's Rajasthan, i. p. 165. But Johar is a common term of salutation among the Hindus.

Seoni Settlement Report (1867), p. 43.

From a collection of notes on Patharis by various police officers. The passage is somewhat abridged in reproduction.

Ficus R.

Bassia latifolia.

Ficus glomerata.

Note already quoted.

This article is partly compiled from papers by Mr. Aduram Chaudhri and Pandit Pyare Lal Misra of the Gazetteer Office, and extracts from Mr. Kitts' Berar Census Report (1881), and Mr. Sewell's note on the caste quoted in Mr. Gayer's Lectures on the Criminal Tribes of the Central Provinces.

Lectures on Criminal Tribes of the C.P., p. 19.

Berar Census Report (1881), p. 135.

Bombay Ethnographic Survey, art. Pardhi.

Jungle Life in India, pp. 586-587.

Peasant Life in Bihar, p. 80.