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1923.] An Essay on the History of Newar Culture. 551 
list, that of Hodgson supplies the data on this point. The 
different castes are described and ae priests indicated. 
Hetarioal liste fit in very ell with Ag conclusions areived 
at from present day conditions. 
e castes that bave Brahman priests alone, are the 
royal and warrior castes, court officials, scribes, astrologers, 
the different Acharyas who area kind of priests of local deities, 
and two artisan castes—the cowherds and the weavers who 
make the sacred thread and ena for idols. 
The Hindu weavers are evidently from their occupation a 
very special group and although not mentioned in any of the 
lists given for the present state of castes, may exist as temple 
menials at least For clothes of idols cannot come from the 
makers of grave clothes who are mentioned both in the 
historical as well as modern lists. Beside these, there are no 
other weavers in Nepal, all the spinning and weaving neces- 
sary for household needs having been performed up till now at 
least, by Newari women.’ 
The cowherds have already been discussed in the preced- 
ing Appendix, and it has been shown that they are a Hindu 
ste. Hence if we now proceed to compare the list of Hindus 
bere obtained with that of the existing Hindu castes, meaning 
by Hindu, in both cases castes which have only Brahmans 
as priests and are not heterodox—the resemblance is very 
striking, and close. The two apparent discrepancies merely 
tend to support the agreement. 
o not at all wish toemphasise the information obtained 
from these two lists, as it is not possible to subject them to a 
good test It is however quite clear that no argument can 
be drawn from them against the conclusions of the preceding 
Appendices. Whatever their real value may turn out to be, 
they support those inferences very closely. ‘This is all I wish 
to draw attention to in these lists 
I shall add to this appendix some Chis accounts of 
Nepal (which have heen quoted by Lévi) for completeness. 
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| There is no data to go by on which to examine the two lists criti- 
cally by them 7 about orp oe etc. Wo have only the reliabi- 
lity _ Na observer 
e on the ne of Arts a P Cotton poset weaving, printing, and 
livels in n Nop by Dr. A. Campbell, J.A.S.B., April 1836, p. 219, et seq. 
mg es spinning and weaving is in Nepal may be ees te 
h r parent has to prese: 
from the Test | that every ioe paren pri pao Ge aed 
mpbeil’s description of the yeau 
hat they are the same instruments as spinning 
wheel and seed separator of the plains of India. 
