3. Exogamous sections.

Their septs are of the usual low-caste type, being named after animals,

inanimate objects or nicknames of ancestors. One of them is Panch-biha

or 'He who had five wives,' and another Kul-dip or 'The sept of the

lamp.' Members of this sept will stop eating if a lamp goes out. The

Janta Ragda take their name from the mill for grinding corn and will

not have a grinding-mill in their houses. They say that a female

ancestor was delivered of a child when sitting near a grinding-mill

and this gave the sept its name. Three septs are named after other

castes: Kumharbans, descended from a potter; Gandbans, from a Ganda;

and Luha, from a Lohar or blacksmith, and which names indicate that

members of these castes have been admitted into the community.

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