Part 63

Castes and Tribes of Southern India, art. Bohra.

Crooke's edition of Hobson-Jobson, art. Bohra.

Moor's Hindu Infanticide, p. 168.

Memoir of Central India, ii. p. 111.

This article is mainly compiled from a full and excellent account of the caste by Mr. Gopal Datta Joshi, Civil Judge, Saugor, C.P., to whom the writer is much indebted. Extracts have also been taken from Mr. W. Crooke's and Sir H. Risley's articles on the caste in their works on the Tribes and Castes of the United Provinces and Bengal respectively; from Mr. J. N. Bhattacharya's Hindu Castes and Sects (Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, 1896), and from the Rev. W. Ward's View of the History, Literature and Religion of the Hindus (London, 1817).

Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Brahman, quoting Professor Eggeling in Encyclopaedia Britannica, s.v. Brahmanism.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Brahman.

Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies, 3rd ed. p. 172.

Muir, Ancient Sanskrit Texts, i. 282 sq.

Quoted in Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Brahman.

Quoted by Mr. Crooke.

Tribes and Castes of the Punjab, by Mr. H. A. Rose, vol. ii. p. 123.

See also article Rajput-Gaur.

See subordinate articles.

A section of the Kanaujia. See above.

Tribes and Castes, art. Brahman.

Chap. ix. v. 173.

Ward's Hindus, vol. ii. p. 97.

Ibidem, pp. 98, 100.

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, by the Abbe Dubois, 3rd ed. p. 499.

Ibidem, p. 500.

London, Heinemann (1897), pp. 84-91.

This is the famous Gayatri.

It is not known how a slip-knot and a garland are connected with any incarnation of Vishnu. For the incarnations see articles Vaishnava sect.

In the Central Provinces Ganpati is represented by a round red stone, Surya by a rock crystal or the Swastik sign, Devi by an image in brass or by a stone brought from her famous temple at Mahur, and Vishnu by the round black stone or Saligram. Besides these every Brahman will have a special family god, who may be one of the above or another deity, as Rama or Krishna.

Bipracharanamrita.

Hindu Castes and Sects, pp. 19-21.

Rajasthan, i. p. 487.