ly thought that the Bohras were true
Shias and not Ismailias.

[390] _Ibidem_, pp. 30-32.

[391] _J.A.S.B._ vol. vi. (1837), part ii. p. 847.

[392] _Berar Census Report_ (1818), p. 70.

[393] _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_, art. Bohra.

[394] Crooke's edition of _Hobson-Jobson_, art. Bohra.

[395] Moor's _Hindu Infanticide_, p. 168.

[396] _Memoir of Central India_, ii. p. 111.

[397] 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).

[398] Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Brahman, quoting Professor
Eggeling in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, s.v. Brahmanism.

[399] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Brahman.

[400] _Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies_, 3rd ed. p. 172.

[401] Muir, _Ancient Sanskrit Texts_, i. 282 _sq._

[402] Quoted in Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Brahman.

[403] Quoted by Mr. Crooke.

[404] _Tribes and Castes of the Punjab_, by Mr. H. A. Rose,
vol. ii. p. 123.

[405] See also article Rajput-Gaur.

[406] See subordinate articles.

[407] A section of the Kanaujia. See above.

[408] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Brahman.

[409] Chap. ix. v. 173.

[410] Ward's _Hindus_, vol. ii. p. 97.

[411] _Ibidem_, pp. 98, 100.

[412] _Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies_, by the Abbe Dubois,
3rd ed. p. 499.

[413] _Ibidem_, p. 500.

[414] London, Heinemann (1897), pp. 84-91.

[415] This is the famous Gayatri.

[416] 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.

[417] 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.

[418] _Bipracharanamrita._

[419] _Hi