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take poisoned food, so they kill horses with poisoned sharp-pointed 

 instruments. 



The fuliias never reveal the secret of their language and their 

 v^ords. They have no grammar like the Sasis. They form their secret 

 words by the insertion of ma into Panjabi words, just as shul is changed 

 into skumal. 



3. On the Organization of Caste by Ballala Sen. — By Mahamaho- 



PADHYATA HaRAPRASAD ShASTRI, M.A. 



It will be remembered that at the last general meeting I read two 

 papers, one on the Authenticity of Vallalacarita and the other on the 

 existence of the Ancient Magi in India, even up to the present day. 

 The materials for the latter paper were drawn from the newly-dis- 

 covered MSS. of Vallalacarita by Ananda Bhatta. In the present paper 

 I purpose to give a brief outline of the re- organization of the Caste System 

 by Vallala 800 years ago. But before commencing the paper I cannot help 

 bringing to your notice a striking confirmation of my theory about the 

 Magi from a more ancient and a more authentic source. My friend and 

 pupil, Babu Guggamohan Laskara, M.A., a post-graduate scholar, is en- 

 gaged in deciphering an ancient MS. brought by me from Nepal and exhi- 

 bited at this meeting about two years ago. The MS., I believe, was copied 

 about 550 A. D. It is written in the same characters as the Horinzi palm- 

 leaves in Japan. In the ninth leaf of the MS., on the reverse side, there is 

 a verse in the future tense — a prophetic utterance no doubt — ^T^'UTTt 

 'TJiliTTW ^^"^ ^\Wt ^fi^. In the Kaliyuga Brahmanas and Magas will 

 be regarded as equals. So even in that ancient time, when Nasirvan 

 was making war on the Rajas of Gujerat or even some centuries before 

 it, good people in India were labouring under the apprehension that Brah- 

 manas and the Magi will, at some future time, occupy the same position. 



Now to my present paper. I consider those chapters of the Carita 

 as most authentic which are connected with the name of farana Datta, 

 a contemporary poet of Vallala, and I will see what parana has to say 

 about the re-organization of the caste system by Vallala. 



Vallala in these chapters is said to have performed a great sacrifice, 

 invited all the four castes with the innumerable mixed castes, and 

 fed them and honoured them all according to their deserts. The 

 Sonara banias, however, who prided themselves as Vai^yas, had no 

 separate accommodation provided for them. They complained and they 

 were told to go with the clean (^udras. They resented it and left the place. 

 Their overbearing conduct was reported to the king and he declared 

 that they should be degraded and any Brahmaua teaching them or 

 officiating in their religious ceremonies should be excommunicated 



