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1886.] Kavi Raj Shyamal Diis —The Mind tribe of Jdjpnr. 
Government in S. 1916 (—A. D. 1860) they do not publicly carry arms. 
Their food consists of wheat, barley, Indian corn, and ghi, they indulge 
in spirits and eat largely of flesh of all kinds, save that of the boar 
which, strange to say, they hold to be sacred. 
Generally they are a well-to-do people, very few of them being poor, 
and most of them owning large herds of cattle. Theft is their general 
profession, and some of them follow dacoity, they practise husbandry 
merely as a nominal pursuit. 
They have a strong feeling of attachment to their clan, and readily 
unite against outsiders. They have all the obstinate courage of hill 
men, and are disposed to be turbulent and troublesome subjects, re¬ 
quiring a strong hand to keep them in order. 
When not called upon to fight against their own tribe, the Parihar 
Minas are very reliable and daring mercenaries. 
The Minas of this branch are very cunning and expert thieves, 
and do not always fulfil the conditions of compacts in the nature of 
black-mail entered into with travellers. 
When a theft is traced home to them, and the perpetrators of the 
crime are fined, they pay the amount, but recompense themselves by 
similar ventures at the earliest opportunity. 
They principally worship Mahadev (Shiv). 
It is not held by them to be inconsistent with their dignity, to give 
their daughters in marriage on payment of money ; but as their number 
is very great, and the other Mina castes are comparatively few in number 
it rarely happens that the latter have to marry the daughter of a Parihar 
Mina, and whenever they do so, they pay a fine, so low are the Parihars 
held in estimation by the other Minas. 
The Parihar Minas used to kill their daughters in former days, but 
this barbarous practice has gradually died out since the Camp at Deoli 
has been in existence, and the monthly statement of births and deaths 
is submitted to the Agency. 
The crime has not been heard of for some years past. On refer¬ 
ring to the statement for Saravat 1936 (= A. D. 1879-80) for Peplea, 
the number of boys was found to be in the ratio of 22 : 0 to girls. 
The younger brother can marry the widow of the elder, but a woman 
cannot become the wife of her sister’s son : the other rules of Nata 
(widow-marriage) all hold good in the case of the Parihars. 
SiNDAM Minas. 
Jorji or Zorji Rathor —chief of Kalin jar in Kangra, 
had a younger son named Jamraj, from whom descended the following 
line— 
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