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" ' Let these beings you have made exist ; you shall create no 
" more.' Whereupon Boora caused an exudation of sweat to 
" proceed from his body, collected it in his hand, and threw 
" it around, saying : ' To all that I have created,' and thence 
" arose love, and sex, and the continuation of species. The 
" creation was perfectly free from moral and physical evil. 
" Man enjoyed free intercourse with the Creator. They lived 
" without labour, .in perfect harmony and peace. They went 
" unclothed. , .The lower animals were all perfectly innocuous. 
" The Earth Groddess, highly incensed at the love shown 
" towards man thus created and endowed, broke into open 
" rebellion against Boora, and resolved to blast the loss of his 
" new creature by the introduction into the world of every 
" form of moral and physical evil. . . A few individuals of 
" mankind entirely rejected evil, and remained sinless ; the 
" rest all yielded to its power, and fell into a state of uni- 
" versal disobedience to the Deity, and fierce strife with one 
'•' another. Boora immediately deified the sinless few without 
" their suffering death. . . Upon the corrupted mass of man- 
" gudda, Kareal, and Kharond or Kalahandi ; in the south, they form the 
" mass of the population of Bustar and a portion of the inhabitants of 
" Jeypur (in the Madras Presidency), while they occupy the hills along the 
" left bank of the Godaverj' about Nirmul ; and on the west, thej' are inter- 
" mingled with the Hindus of Berar for 30 miles from the right bank of the 
" Wurdah, and, along the Kurs, extend along the hills both north and south 
" of the Narbadda to the meridian of Hindia, where they give place to the 
" Bhils and Nahals. 
" In such a large extent of countrj^, as might be expected, they are di- 
" vided into various branches, and distinguished by specific names. The 
" classification adopted by themselves is into twelve and a half castes or 
" classes, in imitation of the Hindus. These are — Raj Gond, Raghuwal, 
" Dadave, Katulya, Padal, Dholi, Ojhyal, Thotj-al, Koilabhutal, Koikopa.1, 
" Kolam, Madj-al, and an inferior sort of Padal as the half caste. The first 
" four, with the addition, according to some of the Kolam, are comprehended 
" under the name of Koitdr — the Gond, par excellence. This term, in its 
" radical form of Koi, occurs over a wide area, being the name given to the 
" Meria-sacrificing aborigines of Orissa and to the jungle tribes skirting the 
" east hank of the Godavery from the apex of the delta as far up nearly as 
" the mouth of the Indrawati. Its meaning is evidently associated with 
" the idea of a hill ; the Persian name of which, Koh, approaches it more 
" closely than even the Teloogoo, Kondd. I need scarcely, therefore, add 
