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had less motive to mix their proud blood with that of the vile abori- 
gines than the Brahmans felt the impulse of, and they did mix it less. 
Hence, to this hour, they claim a vague superiority over the Khds, 
notwithstanding that the pressure of the great tide of events around 
them has, long since, confounded the two races in all essentials. Those 
among the Kshatriyas of the plains, who were more lax, and allied 
themselves with the Khds females in concubinage, were permitted to 
give to their children, so begotten, the patronymic title only, not the 
rank. But their children again, if they married for two generations 
into the Khds, became pure /fhds, or, real Kshatriyas in point of pri- 
vilege and rank, though no longer so in name! They were Khas, not 
Kshatriyas: and yet they bore the proud cognomina of the martial 
order of the Hinddés, and were, in the land of their nativity, entitled 
to every prerogative which Kshatriya birth confers in Hindistan ! 
Such is the third and less fruitful root of the Khas race. 
The Ekthariahs speak the Khés language, and they speak no other. 
The Thdkurts differ from the Hkthariahs only by the accidental 
circumstance of their lineage being royal. At some former period, and 
in some little state or other, their progenitors were princes. 
The Sahi are the present royal family. 
The remaining military tribes of the Parbattiahs are the Magar 
and Girding, who now supply the greater numbers of the soldiers of 
this state. 
From lending themselves less early and heartily to Brahmanical 
influence than the Kids they have retained, in vivid freshness, their 
original languages, physiognomy, and, in a less degree, habits. 
To their own untaught ears their languages differ entirely the one 
from the other, but, in very truth, only as remote dialects of one great 
tongue, the type of which is the language of Tibet. Their physiogno- 
mies, too, have peculiarities proper to each, but with the general Cal- 
muk caste and character in both. The Gurdngs are less generally and 
more recently redeemed from Ldmdism and primitive impurity than the 
Magars. 
But, though both Girdngs and Magars still maintain their own 
vernacular tongues, Tartar faces, and careless manners, yet, what with 
military service for several generations, under the predominant Kids, 
and what with the commerce of Kids males with their females*, they 
* Here, as in the cases of the Brahman and Khds, and Kshatriya and Khds, there 
ean be no marriage. The offspring of a Khds with a Magarin or Giringni is a 
titular Khds and real Magar or Giéring. The descendants fall into the rank of 
their mothers, and retain only the patronymic. 
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