“Naga kulli oe dalli kulli. How and whe 
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cupping ’’ to curing corns, and in a very short while collected a 
book full of chits from grateful British soldiers—the British 
soldier it was explained to me ‘* always had corns.’’ Besides 
the cupping operation which I have described and which when 
applied to corns had all the appearance of a literal extraction, 
my friend learnt how to operate on ingrowing toe-nails and the 
treatment by cupping of cases of flat feet, and so on. as 
from his book of chits, when I knew him, a most successful prac- 
tising Chiropodist among the British soldiers and sailors in 
Bombay. 
3. GOH-HER. Totemic, but I am afraid the Totemic 
value is not very great as catching the Goh or gohsdmp (iguana) — 
is pretty generally carried out by the whole Gehara section. 
The taboo only remains as a suggestion. Mr. Crooke classifies © 
the Goher as an iguana-catcher—this is probably what the 
orginal totemic taboo has. deteriorated into 
4. NAKPHULA. 
Kanjar shikari who called his sept Niakphiia or nag phand, a 
c 
nicknames of founders of septs and divisions But are these 
names really as absurd as they sound to us? I feel certain 
that the application of the term nak phhoola, which means 
“swollen nose,’’ in this case has some definite relation to the 
s 
! N&gphil or Nag Phal = snake fruit. probably from the resem- 
i ith t r oO 
bla f the broad prickly leaf with the flower on top to a cobra 
wich expanded et}. urkill has kindly given me the following 
teresting note :—‘* There are sev pecies of Opunt-a in India ; 
** origin is America 
, and the 
**before 1750. There is, however, no evidence of its coming whereby to 
** fix the date. 
‘‘phana. Nagphana or Nagphani is the general name in Northern and 
there on. 
** In 1786 the Madras (:overnment in an order called the plant 
a these vernacular names 
ia 1 donot know. Ihave no evidence that 
~ were for another plant before Opuntia became common in 
** India.’” 
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