278 P. N. Bose — Chhattisyar : notes on its tribes, sects and castes. [No. 3, 
But, one of them looked and saw a place named Kacliikopa Laliu- 
gad.* 
They went by the jungly road n)nd searched that place.” 
The second song relates how the four runaways first lived by hunt- 
ing alone, and then gradually learnt rude cultivation. Lingo, who is 
worshipped by some classes of Gonds as a god, was brought into exis- 
tence by Bhagavan to bettor the condition of the Gonds. He went to 
the four Gonds who had taken refuge at Kachikopa Lahugad, and was 
kindly received by them. They had been living on game which they 
ate cooked or raw. Lingo told them to out down trees and get a field 
ready. But, 
“ Their hands were blistered, and each blister was as large as an 
Aola fruit.f 
They threw down their hatchets and came to Lingo, 
(And said) : “ Our hands are blistered, therefore we threw down our 
hatchets.” 
They went aside and sat down. Then arose Lingo and held a 
hatchet in his hand. 
And went on cutting trees ; the trees fell, their roots were dug up. 
Thus he began to cut down jungle. In an hour he made a good 
field. 
(They said) : “ Our hands are blistered and not one tree have we 
cut down. 
But Lingo in one hour has cut down several trees ; 
He has made the black soil (appear), and has sown rice and hedged 
it round.” 
This is the sort of cultivation which the Gonds learnt, which in 
many parts they still practise, and which they would not leave for any 
other if they could help. It goes by the name of Ddhi. Since the prohi- 
bition of the reckless cutting down of trees in British territory, the 
Gonds have had to take to the plough in some parts, but nowhere do 
they appear to have done so with a heart as yet. 
The four Gonds of Kachikopa Lahugad were unmarried. Lingo 
set out in seai’ch of wives for them. An old giant of the name of 
Rikad Gawadi had seven daughters. Lingo inserted a bamboo stick in 
the hollow of a gourd and made a guitar. 
“ He plucked two hairs from his head and strung it. 
• “The meaning in Gondi is the ‘ Iron Valley — the red hills a nomenclature 
very applicable to the mineral products and external aspect of many hills in the 
Gond country.” (Hislop, op. cit. part III, p. 6, foot note.) 
t Sanskrit, Xmalaki, Phyllanthus emblica (Willd.) 
