Show 77 AN ODD INDIAN BELIEF tradition connected with the divis on into castes according to the tradition of one of 0 the tribes of india the sun fre created tea a man mail and a woman at the be beg annin mnina of time and this couple had trelva children when they had all come to an age to shift for themselves the sun divided them into pairs and placed food of all kinds before them 0 their choice depended the fate of descendants those who took vege tables only became the ancestors ol 01 0 the highest caste of all the brab brah mans while the sandals the lowest of all castes spring from those jhc chose pigs the kols declare that they are descended from those who took bullocks flesh and to the sustaining power of the food of their choice the larka or fighting kols attribute their strength and fine physique when these latter at the beginning of the last century first met english troops they were quid ly impressed with nith the fighting powers of the stran gers and finding that they too ate bullocks flesh the kols paid them the great compliment of assigning them the same pair ot of ancestors as the kols but by the time eleven pairs had chosen their share of the booti provided there was nothing left for or the unfortunate twelfth couple and they had to beg food from the others who had fared better from this un lucky pair spring the chasis who do not work worl but support t themselves hem selves on the chanty charity and leavings of others |