676 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1911. 
Maraiya were so named because they ‘*did not enter into 
b 
houses ’’—‘‘ Makin mé nahi ghusta’’ ; nor would they uild 
houses or live near them. It is well known that these names 
often have their origin as titles of derision. In Mr. Crooke’s 
Account of the Nats he mentions a section of the: Badinats 
called ‘* Marai, a kind of tree. 
7. SANKAT. Probably occupational, if we accept the 
meaning as ordinarily understood, viz. Stone-cutter. Some 
of the Kanjars and similar tribes all over Northern India are 
known to supply chakkis or hand grindstones 
h or Suk besides meaning stone or stones also means 
a shell or shells, and we have various exogamous septs bearing 
the same name. Sukwar is a subsection of the Gulgulias of 
Bengal. Sakawar is asept of the Nats; while there is a Santali 
totemistic sept known as Sankh (a conch shell), the Kurmis 
also have a totemic sept Sankhowar (shell ornaments), while 
Sunkhar is an Exogamous gotrd of the Khatiks. 
8. SOHNRA. Eponymous. The ancestor being one 
Sohnra who fell asleep among the rushes on the banks of a 
river, and waking at night, he thought the waving grasses 
surrounding him were rushing waters. He struck out to swim 
to save himself, which brought him to his senses, and he thus 
ee his delu usion. Kas mé nd tirnd is a tribal ‘ prover- 
bial’ song. ‘*Do not swim in rushes! ’’ or ‘‘ gra 
e SAINAK SOHDA. Totemic. Sainak “eabata ng an 
earthenware plate used to cover the mouth of the wareeties” 
round jar known as a ghard or chatti. Sohda; of its meaning 
have been unable to get any i oesintapes It might possibly 
be the Punjabi pronunciation of Sohnr 
10. RARHI SOHDA Totemic. Rarhi or Rahri_ being 
sort of totem, but a ails explanation. that in some myste- 
rious way it was in the form of ‘‘a thread of saliva’’ that the 
first ancestor of this sept was ae It is of course well known 
that Sh ce E is sometimes used as a charm, and we have it in 
J.A.8.B., rat Song and Folklore of the o Gehara(Kanjars), P. 437, 
vol. vit No. 7. The following extract from . Croo sae and 
Castes,’ p. 71, vol. 3, on the Julaha is intere veetting 3 one escach embodies 
: curious piece of folklore. ‘* The Julaha lost his way in a linseed ogc 
linseed field covered with blue flowers for a river and tried to swim it. 
As a parallel Mr. Christian (Behar haba 137) quotes from Kingsley’s 
**The Roman and The Teuton’’: ‘* A madness pee! God came over the 
Herules ; when they 34 to a field of Sei they t the blue flowers 
water, 8 it their arms swim ie ind and were all 
slaughtered defenc encelossly.”” He oe have added that the same tale 
appears in No. 149 of oe * German Stories.’’ 
