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ON THE ORIGIN-AL IKHABITAJfTS 
"kind, Boora Pennu inflicted high moral penalties, and.. 
" entirely withdrew his face and his immediate guardianship 
"from mankind. He made all who had fallen subject to 
" death. . .Universal discord and war prevailed. . .Diseases and 
" death came upon all creatures; snakes became venomous.. . 
" Man. .sank into a state of abject suffering and degrada- 
tion. .Meanwhile, Boora and Tari contended for superiority 
" in fierce conflict ; their terrible strife raging throughout 
" the earth, the sea and the sky ; their chief weapons being 
" mountains, meteors and whirlwinds. Up to this point, the 
Khonds hold the same belief ; but from it, they di^-ide into 
" two sects directly opposed upon the great question of the 
"issue of the contest betweem Boora and his rebel consort. . 
" The sect of Boora believe that he proved triumphant in the 
" contest, and, as an abiding sign of the discomfiture of 
" Tari, imposed the cares of childbirth upon her sex.. .The 
" sect of Tari hold, upon the other hand, that she re- 
" mained unconquered, and still maintains the struggle with 
" various success." I give this interesting story of the 
" that it has no connection with the interrogative Koi, as some have sup- 
" posed, nor has Koitorany relation to the Sanskrit A"s/((7<;v'//o, as suggested by 
" Sir R. Jenkins. Though there are a few of the more wealthy Koitors who 
"would gladly pass themselves ofi as Rajputs, yet the great majority of 
" those known by that name resent, ^nt\\ no small vehemence, the imputation 
' ' of belonging to any portion of the Hindu community. The sacred thread 
"of the twice-born, instead of being an object of ambition, is to them a 
" source of defilement." 
The passage on the Gonds and Khonds in C. Lassen's Ind'tsehe Alicrtliums- 
kundc, vol. I, pp. 426-432 (or pp. 373-78). should be consulted as well as 
those in the Rev. M. A. Sher7-ing's ITindii Tribes and Castes, vol. II. pp. 134- 
162, and vol. Ill, pp. 200 and 206, and Colonel Dalton's Ethnology of Bengal, 
pp. 275-304. In the second volume of II. H. Wilson's Vishnupurdna 
published by F. Hall, p. 163, Shandn is read instead of Khanda. 
Lieutenant iMaopherson gives in his report on p. 61 a list of the Khond 
deities and divides them into national and local deities : " In the first class 
are (1) Bcni Pennoo or the Earth god : (2) Bella Pennoo, the Sun god, and 
Panzoo Pennoo, the Moon god : (3) Sunde Pennoo. the god of Limits ; 
(4) Loha Pennoo, the Iron god or god of Arms : (5) Joog-.ih Pennoo, the god 
of Small-pox ; (6) Nadzoo Pennoo, or the Village deity ; the imiversjil 
genius loci ; (7) Soni Pennoo, the Hill god, .lori Pennoo, the god of Stre;iras, 
and Gossa Pennoo, the Foi-est god: (S) Moonda Peanoo, the Tank god; 
