336 Lieut.-Colonel Mixes on the Jainas of Gujerat and Marwar. 
sistence from only one or two particular houses, and even then under 
certain restrictions ; as,—lIst. If the door be open; for if it is shut, they 
will not knock, as by that means they might injure animal life, and the sin 
consequently fall to their account ;—2d. On entering a house they observe 
how much food has been prepared, and the number of persons to partake 
of it, and only accept of a proportionately small quantity, that the people 
of the house may not have to cook again: if more be offered they 
refuse it;—3d. If there be a marriage, or the cause of mourning in the 
house, they will not approach it ;—4th. If they should not be able to pro- 
cure food in the houses from which they have predetermined to beg, they 
pass the day and night fasting. 
The followers or disciples of the Séwrds do not eat or drink at night ; 
and if any prepared food remains after their meals, they immediately dispose 
of’ it. 
They consider it meritorious to abstain from fruits or vegetables—as 
greens, the fruit of the egg-plant, yams, cucumbers, potatoes, &c.—it being 
their opinion that all these are endued with life like animal nature. 
They wear no clothes, except a small cloth for the sake of decency, and 
a sheet, which covers them all over. They invariably carry with them a 
broom, made of a fine kind of wool, to sweep the places on which they are 
about to sit, in order that no injury may result to insects. 
They do not allow the creation of the world ; and the learned among them 
say, that as grass springs up from the earth of itself, no one sowing it, even 
so the production of life is spontaneous, and by the course of nature from 
eternity. They do not admit any future state of punishment, but say that 
man is formed by the junction of the four elements, which after death all 
separate, and return to their original form and state. As nothing, therefore, 
remains to be punished, they do not agree with the preparation of the 
srddd@’ha, or food offered to the souls of their ancestors, by the Mahéswaris 
or Hindis; for they say that after a lamp is extinguished, it is of no use to 
pour oil into it 
They esteem it a sin to shave or cut their hair, but conceive it very meri- 
torious to pluck it out by the roots. Their chief penance is to abstain from 
bathing or washing themselves, contrary to the practice of the Brahmans 
and Mahéswaris, who bathe at the least twice a day. 
The Séwids purchase boys, and sometimes receive volunteers into their 
