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Kavi Raj Sliyamal Das —The Mind trihe of Jdjpur. [No. 3, 
(7.) Belangt^JT. 
(8.) Kabra 
(9.) Dagal from a Rajput father. 
(10.) Ghartud from a Rajput father. 
(11.) Bhurwo 
(12.) Kirwa 
(13.) Dhodhing VTVfJT of a Chowhan father. 
(14.) Bhil born of a Bhil mother. 
(15.) Boya 
(16.) Mothis from a Pramar or Puar Rajput. 
(17.) Parihar (W^) from a Rajput father. 
Of the above only the Mothis and Parihar are found in the Jajpur* * * § 
district in any considerable number, and the following account relates 
principally to these two clans.f 
The Jajpur Minas number altogether two thousand five hundred 
families, composing, in round numbers, eleven thousand five hundred 
souls.;]; 
MoTHis Mina.§ 
The Mothis family of Minas is said to have been founded about three 
centuries before the age of Vikramaditya by a Rajput of the Pramar 
clan, of which Vikram was the pride and ornament. 
Rohi|| Das, a descendant of Raja Barna Rishi, son to Raja Dhiimra 
(to whose family also belonged Chitrang Mori and Bhartrihari), was one 
day engaged in contemplation on Mount Abu, when a Banjara female « 
who had strayed from her caravan of bullocks chanced to pass by him. 
Rohi Das was struck with her beauty, and wooed her. She in due course 
gave birth to two sons, Haria and Saria, in a field of lentils, (Moth), 
whence they came to be called Mothis ; and in consequence of having 
been born of a low caste mother, they were ranked low. 
* Yajnapura ‘ city of sacrifice ’ is the original Sanskrit name : although in the 
word the jn regularly becomes g in Hindi or ^ y®t in the name of the 
town it becomes ^ giving Jajpur, which again outsiders have modified into J ahaj 
pur. See my Comp. Gram. Vol. I., p. 302 .—Ed. 
f The writer is indebted to the Hakim (Mehta Lachhmi Lai Ji) of the district 
for much assistance in the enquiry regarding the Minas, and also to Bhawana Mina 
a Subahdar in the Sajjan Paltan. 
J The total number of Minas in Rajputana is fixed by Kitts at 42,7672. Com¬ 
pendium of Castes and Tribes, p. 13. 
§ This narrative has been taken from the MSS. of theMagas and Dholis, and 
from oral accounts delivered by old men. 
II His younger brother succeeded to the throne of Dhar in^Malwa. 
