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W. H. P. Driver —The Pahariya-Kharias. 
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English. 
Plains-Kharia. 
Hill-Kharia 
Foot 
... Katta 
... Jura. 
Jackal 
... Tuyin 
... Karelia. 
Monkey 
... Bandar 
... Sakoi. 
Morning 
... Meang 
Patar. 
Plantain 
... Kera 
... Kondo. 
River 
... Ompai 
... Jor. 
To-day 
... Musa 
... Kone. 
Near 
... Ubdu 
Ekor. 
Weep 
... Yamna 
... Libdana. 
Bad 
... Bekar 
... Kambo. 
Old 
... Buddha 
... Kendrubo. 
Divisions. —There are two tribes of hill Kharias, the ‘ Pahariya ’ and 
the ‘ Neosa.’ The Pahariyas are the more civilized, being more fastidious 
as to their food, and wearing cloth, while Neosas are said to eat cows, and 
animals that have died of disease, and most of them wear only leaves. 
Neither of these tribes can speak any language but their own, but 
it is only with difficulty that they can understand each other. 
Food. —Pahariya-Kharias eat buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, fowls, &c., 
but not cows, tigers, snakes, lizards, &c. 
Religious Festivals. —In religious ideas the Pahariya-Kharias are 
wonderfully advanced. They worship the Sun, ‘ Giring Puja,’ every 
two or three years, in the months of June or July, the head of every 
family doing his own puja, on a bare rock, and offering a white cock, 
a white goat, or a white pig, according to his circumstances. Every 
village has its priest, or ‘ Kalo,’ who must be a Kharia, and his 
sacrifices are to be made at the ‘ Sarna ’ or Jangkorbo. In February 
there are three festivals. At the ‘ Phagun ’ festival each household offers 
its own sacrifice. At the Jangko festival, the Kalo offers a sacrifice for the 
whole village. This festival is kept in honour of the Mahua and Mango, 
which fruits are then in season. Then there is the ‘ Lamlam,’ or hunting 
festival, at which the Kalo again officiates for the whole village. At all 
these festivals the ‘ Tharia ’ is the fashionable dance. In June each 
household offers its ‘ khidori ’ sacrifice. In September the ‘ Kalo ’ 
offers the 1 kadoleta ’ sacrifice, at the cutting of the upland crops. 
At the ‘ Karam ’ festival, in September, the young people of both 
sexes offer sacrifices at the akhra, or dancing place. In October the 
‘ Kalo ’ offers a sacrifice at the ‘ Kharra Puja,’ of a brown khassi goat, and 
three cocks and one hen of different colours. The ‘ Bandai ’ festival is 
kept in October, and at this they dance the c Jadura.’ They dance, the 
‘Desaoli’ in May and June and the ‘ Jadura ’ in October, November 
and December. In the months of February and September each house- 
