In third class families consisting of two or three individuals, the value of clothes may be put down at Rs. 4 or 5.

In addition to these Rs. 3, 2, and 1 may be taken as the average value of leps (quilt), kanthas, and pillows belong to a family of first, second, and third class ryot respectively.

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Adult males use no ornaments. Boys have sometimes brass or silver bangles for the hands and mandulees or patta to hang from the neck. Women use ornaments of various kinds made of gold or silver and sometimes of brass. On the whole, the value of ornaments belonging to a first class family may be set down at Rs. 40 or 50. Women whose husbands are living, when Muhammadans use churi of silver or of lac, and when Hindu, a pair of shell bracelets.

Second class family about Rs. 30, and third class family about Rs. 10 or 15.

1 (Nath) a ring for the nose.

(Besar) an ornament hung from the nose.

(Dana) beads for the neck used by Hindus, but very seldom.

#tafa (Kalse) for arms.

(Balla) bangles.

(Mul) or kharu-anklets.

bfg (Churi) bracelet used by Muhammadans.

(Hasli) a large ring round the neck.

In the cookhouse there is scarcely any article except pata and puta for grinding condiments in addition to brass and earthen pots. These, along with dhenki, ukti, and mosal (a large wooden mortar and pestle), may be valued at about Rs. 3 in each family.

Ryots generally keep, according to their circumstances, quantity of rice, mustard, &c., for consumption during the year, and seeds for next year's cultivation. The value may be set down for a first-class family, Rs. 90 or 100, for second class, Rs. 40 or 50, for a third class, Rs. 25.

A first class family possesses about eight or ten cows and bullocks, sometimes a couple of goats or sheep. In the case of Muhammadans a number of fowls. A second class family possesses four or five cows, and a third class, two or three.

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The value of cattle in a first class family may be

(Pata)—a flat stone.

(Puta)—a stone mullar.

(Ghotee)—a brass or earthen water-pot.

(Raing)—an earthen pot used in cooking rice.

(Patil)—an earthen basin used in cooking curry.

(Shara)—an earthen cover for a pot.

fa (Jhajree)—an earthen vessel for straining water when washing rice, &c.

(Hatta)—an iron or wooden ladle or spoon used in cooking. (Bowlee) an iron tongs used in catching pots when warm.

(Tagaree) a wooden bowl for holding things cooked.

put down at Rs. 70, in a second class family, Rs. 40, and in a third class family, Rs. 20.

A first class family possesses about eight or ten ploughs and three or four harrows, valued at Rs. 8. The value for a second and third class family may be put down at Rs. 5 and 3 respectively.

A first class family possesses generally three daos, four or five kachees, two kodalees or spades, one khuntee (a digging hoe) and an axe. The value may

be put down at Rs. 5.

Second and third class families possess these articles in less numbers, and the value may be put down at Rs. 3 and 2 respectively.

The ryots living in low lands and fields, &c., watered by annual inundation, and on river side, have generally a dingee (a small boat), the value of which may be set down at Rs. 10 to 30.

The first and second class ryots only possess such dingee, but third class ryots very seldom.

With respect to the large class below the third, it may be said generally that they have a single house, a brass lota or thalla, or a stone or wooden plate and cane or bamboo basket, &c., and nothing in the way of a sinduk or charpoys; one or two mats and kanthas and pillows and a couple of dhutees, a plough, a harrow, a dao, a kodalee, a kachee and sometimes a cow or two. The value of all these in average may be

estimated at Rs. 25.

Last Class.

NOTE B.

A FULL representation of a jama bandi in its completest form could only be given on a folded page of inconvenient size, but perhaps some idea of it may be conveyed by the following explanation.

Suppose a given ryot to be one Moti Lall Gopi, and the different items of his rent for the current year to be exhibited thus:

In the jama bandi all these will be given in parallel columns; thus the first column will give the name, next come four columns containing respectively, description of land, quantity, rate, and rent in respect of the Sali, first quality; then four more for the Sali,