e generally bought, and have fixed prices, but we have
seen the customary price (twenty-five pigs) cited only for
Assam among the Meeris. If one man cannot pay so much,
several unite, for polyandry prevails all through the
northern tribes (JRAS. XI. 38), and even in the Punj[=a]b.]

[Footnote 24: Sherring (JRAS. V. 376) says decidedly that
Bh[=a]rs, or Bh[=a]rats, and Ch[=i]rus cannot be Aryans.
This article is one full of interesting details in regard to
the high cultivation of the Bh[=a]rat tribe. They built
large stone forts, immense subterranean caverns, and made
enormous bricks for tanks and fortifications (19 X 11 X
2-1/2 inches), the former being built regularly to east and
west (_surajbedi_). One of their chief cities lay five miles
west of Mirz[=a]pur, and covered several miles, entirely
surrounding the Puranic city of Vindhyacal, built in the
midst of it. Six or seven hundred years ago the Bh[=a]rs
held Oude and Benares. Carnegy's opinion is given in his
_Races, Tribes, and Castes of the Province of Oude_ (Oudh).
The Bh[=a]rs, says Elliot, _Chronicles of Oonayo_, built all
the towns not ending in _pur_, _mow_, or _[=a]b[=a]d_
(Hindu, Mongol, Mohammedan). Their sacra (totems?) are the
bamboo, _bel_-tree, tortoise, and peacock.]

[Footnote 25: JRAS. XII. 229; IA. XXII. 293.]

[Footnote 26: Among the southern Koders the dolmen form
grave-stones; perhaps the religious employment of them in
this wise led to the idea of the god-stone in many cases;
but it is difficult to say in monolith-worship whether the
stone itself be not a god; not a fetish, for (as has been
said by others) a fetish is a god only so long as he is
regarded as being useful, and when shown to be useless he is
flung away; but a god-stone is always divine, whether it
grants prayers or not.]

[Footnote 27: Wilson's note to Stevenson's description,
JRAS. 1838, p. 197. The epic disease-gods are not unique.
The only god known to the Andaman Islanders (Bay of Bengal)
was a disease-devil, and this is found as a subordinate
deity in many of the wild tribes.]

[Footnote 28: In the current _Indian Antiquary_ there is an
exceedingly interesting series of papers by the late Judge
Burnell on Devil-worship, with illustrations that show well
the character of