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Y. S'astri—Kap section of Bcirendm Brahmans. 
Maitra of that village, who was tlie most respectable Kulin among tlie 
Kulins of the then existing society. 
After two or three days Nrisinha reached Majgram and met Madhu. 
Maitra while he was performing his evening ritual on the bank of the river 
Atrai. He instantly made Madhu’s acquaintance and requested him to 
marry bis daughter. Madhu at first refused to do it being afraid of 
social degradation. But when Nrisinha expressed his firm determina¬ 
tion to kill himself in the presence of Madhu after killing his wife, 
daughter, and cow, and throwing his palagrama (the family deit} 7 ) 
which he took with him, into water, Madhu was then obliged to consent 
to marry his daughter. The marriage was, accordingly, performed then 
and there. When Madhu came home with his new wife, she was not 
accepted by his sons and former wife and was illtreated by them. 
Madhu was bound to divide his house into two halves by means of a 
fencing, in one of which he began to live with his new wife, being 
practically excommunicated from the society. 
After some time Madhu found himself in great difficulty when his 
father’s annual Qraddha day drew near, because none of the Brahmans 
of Majgram or its neighbourhood would dine in his house on that day. 
Helpless as he was, he went to invite Dhain Bagchi who 
was his brother-in-law (sister’s husband) and lived some miles off his 
house; but Madhu could not find him. Madhu, however, asked Dhain’s 
wife (his sister) to tell her husband to go to his house on the day of 
his father’s Qraddha and returned home. 
When Dhain Bagchi came home he heard from his wife of Madhu’s 
suddenly coming to his place and was very much astonished, because 
Madhu never used to come to his house before. He asked his wife the 
cause of Madhu’s coming, but she could not tell anything more than what 
Madhu told her. He, however, started for Majgram and reached there 
at midday. While entering into Madhu’s portion of the house he, 
being obstructed by the fencing which Madhu had made, exclaimed, 
“ Well, Sir, what a Kap have you created here ? ” “ Yes Sir,” Madhu re¬ 
plied, “ I have created a Kap there.” The word Kap is not a grammatical 
one so it bears no etymological meaning. It was spontaneously uttered 
by Dhain Bagchi in. the sense of something intervening. But this 
word afterwards became the designation of the sons of Madhu Maitra 
by his former wife, who became a section of Barendra Brahmans inter¬ 
mediate between the Kulins and the Qrotriyas. 
Afterwards Dhain Bagchi met Madhu Maitra and heard every¬ 
thing from him that happened before. On the very day he summoned 
all the Kulins and Qrotriyas of Majgram and its neighbourhood to 
attend a meeting to be held at Madhu Maitra’s house to judge the con- 
