MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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given to the real Vaisya only; but a relaxation is made in their CHAPTER 
favour, as they pay for the badge; and the preservation of the pri- 
vi leges of the lower casts is looked upon as a matter of very little June &c - 
importance. The Guru comes sometimes in person, and at others 
sends his agents, to levy the dues which are paid at marriages, and 
to receive the casual charity that is given according to the ability 
and disposition of his followers. 
These oil-makers offer sacrifices to the Saktis, or destructive 
powers; making vows to do so, when they are in sickness or distress. 
Some of them take Dcis'eri ; and their descendants ever afterwards 
follow the same manner of living, and refuse to intermarry with the 
industrious part of the cast, whom they consider as their inferiors. 
Some of the oil-makers burn, and some bury the dead. There 
have been instances, in the memory of man, of some of their widows 
having burned themselves along with the bodies of their husbands ; 
but it is a very rare occurrence. Their wives can be divorced for 
adultery only, and are not shut up, although the men are allowed a 
plurality of women. They eat no animal food, nor is it lawful for 
them to drink spirituous liquors. They possess no learning, farther 
than being able to read and write accompts ; and a few poems in 
the Andray , or poetical language of Telmgana, which the Ddseri 
commit to memory. 
The people who, in the language of Karnata , are called Chitrakaru, Customs of 
are commonly better known by the Mussulman appellation Jinigar , ^ 
or Jiligar. They make chests, trunks, scrutoires, beds, and palan- 
keens , paint houses, draw pictures of the gods and of women, gild, 
act as tailors, make gold thread, and sword scabbards, turn wood, 
and bind books. They never cultivate the ground, nor act as mer- 
chants. They pretend to be of the Kshdtriya east ; and their Guru , in 
consequence, indulges them with a thread like that of theBrdhmans ; 
but their pretensions to high rank are entirely disavowed by all 
other casts. They have among them some rudiments of learning. 
