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breathes through both nostrils simultaneously. Breathing 
through the right nostril inlicvtes the influence of the 
Sun—through the left the influence of the Moon. There 
going out to plough his fields, or is starting on a journey, or is 
setting out to seek a situation, he consults his nostrils by 
applying his thumb to his left nostril, and if he finds his right 
nostril is the active one the omen is prop-tious, otherwise his 
adventure is doomed to failure. 
If the nostrils fulfil the functions of a sort of vade mecum 
closely allied to the Kanjar—‘ Neta, which they say means the 
“© mucus of the nose,’ in which form they came out of the 
‘nose of their first ancestor’’—here we have some more 
undoubted ‘‘nostril lore’? which probably also has some 
bearing on the origin of the Gehara sept whose founder had a 
‘*swollen nose.’’ 
56. UNTWAR or UTWAR., of Totemic origin, but also 
possibly explained by the occupation indicated. Utwar or 
Uniwar = Untwallah = the camel man. The Kinjars appear 
to be the only ‘‘ caste’’ or tribe in India with an Exogamous 
sept of this name. [ am inclined to suzgest the name might be 
taken as an indication of some locality where the tribe was at 
one time in contact with camels, or were possibly occupied 
as camel-drivers probably in Rajputana and further North. 
6. MARAIYA. Mr. Nesfield and Mr. Crooke give the deri- 
vation as ‘‘ worshippers of Mari’’—Mari being a corrupted 
form of Maharani, the supreme deity of the Kanjar and some 
allied tribes. But I think the fact that Mavaiya, or Marrid, is 
lived in any thing so substantial as a Mdrrid, indicates either 
that the name Mdrdiya is given to a particular gang or camp 
because they lived in mud-pla-tered hits. different in this 
respect from the rest of the tribe; or that the whole tribe were 
iven the name of Marrid, or Maraiya, because of their peculi- 
arity in living in open-air encampments and never in huts or 
houses. In support of my derivation of the word that living 
in anything like a house or Marria was for some reason * taboo,’ 
I have the opinions of several Kanjars who explained that the 
