ABSTRACT
Vaishnava fashion of wearing the hair. Even now they call themselves worshippers of Vishnu, and have engaged the services of a PatitBráhman as Purohit. They have invented three gotras, Ká_syapa, Aliman, and Madhu Kuliyá, and marriages into the same gotra are strictly forbidden. Furthermore, having assumed the sacred badge of the Chhatrís, they imitate them in observing the `Sráddha on the nineteenth day after death.
