ABSTRACT
The Pará_sara Dás is undoubtedly a branch of the Kaibartta class; but the highly respected and prosperous native gentlemen belonging to it repudiate this base origin, claiming from certain passages in the portion of the Padma Purá]na, called Brahma Kha]n]da, and in the V_rihad Vyása Sangíta, to be descended from a Khatrí father and a Vai]sya mother, and, therefore, entitled to equal rank with the Baidyá and Káyath. This pretension, however, is not acknowledged by the latter, who treat them as they do the Kaibarttas, as people with whom no social communion can be held.
