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8. The Pérewars. The name of this tribe is said to be derived from 
their having originally inhabited a suburb of Bhinmél. They are generally 
said to be descended from the Parmdrs of Bhinmal ; some however state 
them to have originated in the city of Chandrayati, in the petty district of 
Siréhi. 
In concluding this account of the three principal tribes of S’ravacas, it 
may be proper to remark, that most of the tribes of Vanyas are divided 
into two classes, called Visé and Dassa, and some have a third and fourth, 
called Pancha and A’d’hyd. The first or Visé class comprises those whose 
origin is perfect or legitimate, no stain being attached to the families from 
which they are derived. 
The second or Dass, on the contrary, are those to whom some stigma is 
affixed from their being the offspring of women who have contracted second 
marriages.* 
The Panchas and A’d’hyds are still lower grades, being the descendants of 
Vanya fathers by women of inferior caste. 
The marriages of these are confined to their respective classes, that is the 
Visas intermarry with the Visas, and the Dassas with the Dassas, &e. 
Of the separation of the Visa and Dassi: classes of the S'rimali tribe. 
This event appears to have taken place about S. 1275 (A.D. 1219), and 
the following is related to have been the cause. Vasti PALa, and Tégu 
Paxa, the founders of the magnificent temples at Dilwdra (on the Abi 
mountain), and Cumbharia (near Amb4 Bhavani), were Pérewirs and 
children or descendants of a second marriage on the female side, and there- 
fore of the Dassa division. : 
On some occasion a grand entertainment being given by them at Pattan, 
* From what I can learn, there is no prohibition in the sacred books of the Jainas to the con- 
traction of second marriages by their females, indeed the contrary seems most probable, as their 
first god A’pina’t'H1A or RisHas’HADiVA married a widow. 
The women of inferior tribes among the Jainas, almost universally, on the demise of their first 
husbands, marry a second time; the Vanya women do not (there are, however, exceptions) 
merely, I believe, because such engagements are considered degrading by the higher classes in 
this country ; it is remarkable that in this opinion they are followed by many of the Muhamme- 
dans. The custom of forbidding second marriages to women is said by the Jainas to have taken its 
rise among them in the time of Vicnama/pitya. 
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