186 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ‘[June, 1909. 
has expressed his full concurrence with me in this respect.! 
And I now proceed one step further. While this process of 
they bea. is on this supposition only that the fact 
of the Guhilots having given up their original Brahmana, for 
Kshatriya, caste we have seen, is intelligible. We have 
‘ hatri 
ought to have been rendered, I think, by ‘‘ head-garland of the 
Brahmakshatri family.’’ That the latter is the correct transla- 
of new tribes afterwards turned Kshatriyas, before their final 
mergence into the Hindu society. The present Brahmakshatris 
no doubt say that they were ‘“the descendants of Kshatriya 
women, who, at the time of Paragurama’s massacre, were saved 
1} Jour, Roy. As. Soc. for 1905, p. 30. 
* Ep. Ind., vol. i, pp. 306 and 312. 
8 This is published in Bibliotheca Indica. 
