[In Cutch they claim to be Rāthors from Multān, and are said to have been driven by the Muhammadans from the Panjāb into Cutch. In Gujarāt they are Vaishnavas, and are particular about their food and drink, but in Sind they are more lax (_BG_, v. 54 ff., ix. Part i. 122; Burton, _Sindh_, 314).] Footnote 8.2.41: [They are numerous in S.W. Panjāb, where Rose (_Glossary_, ii. 16 ff.) gives a full account of them.] Footnote 8.2.42: [On their connexion with the Bhatti Rājputs see Crooke, _Tribes and Castes N.W.P. and Oudh_, ii. 37; Russell, _Tribes and Castes Central Provinces_, i. 380; _BG_, v. 37 f.] Footnote 8.2.43: [About 45 miles S. of Umarkot.] Footnote 8.2.44: [These desert Brāhmans, whose laxity of custom is notorious, have no connexion with other orthodox Brāhmans, and are probably priests or medicine-men who now claim that rank.] Footnote 8.2.45: [_Census Report, Bombay_, 1911, i. 298.] Footnote 8.2.46: Abu-l Fazl, in describing the province of Bajaur, inhabited by the Yusufzais, says: “The whole of the tract [Swāt] of hill and plain is the domain of the Yūsufzai clan. In the time of Mīrza Ulugh Beg of Kābul, they migrated from Kābul to this territory and wrested it from the Sultāns who affected to be descendants of Alexander Bicornutus” _(Āīn_, ii. 392 f.). Mr. Elphinstone inquired in vain for this offspring of Alexander the Great. Footnote 8.2.47: [These derivations are impossible; the name is possibly connected with that of the Savara tribe.] Footnote 8.2.48: [Nawakot and Mitti in the interior of Thar-Pārkar; Baliāri on the shore of the Great Rann.] Footnote 8.2.49: [The Rājar are recorded as a section of the Saman, an aboriginal tribe in Sind (_Census Report, Bombay_, 1911, i. 233).] Footnote 8.2.50: [See Elliot-Dowson i. 489.] Footnote 8.2.51: [The true reading is Nohmardi (_Āīn_, ii. 337).] Footnote 8.2.52: [Cf. Hindi _lokri_ or _lokhri_.] Footnote 8.2.53: [Max Müller derived Baloch from Skt. _mlechchha_, ‘a barbarian,’ but this is doubtful.] Footnote 8.2.54: [Zott is the Arabic form of Jat or Jāt (Sykes, _Hist. of Persia_, ii. 79).] Footnote 8.2.55: [The ascription of Bhatti origin to the Mers is obviously intended to correspond with the assertion that they are a branch of the Mīna or Maina tribe (Elliot-Dowson i. 523 f.).] Footnote 8.2.56: [In the Panjāb Mor is the name of a Jāt sept which worship the peacock (_mor_) because it is said to have saved their ancestor from a snake (Rose, _Glossary_, iii. 129). There was a settlement of this tribe at Sārangpur on the Kāli Sind River (_ASR_, ii. 228).] Footnote 8.2.57: [_Account of the Kingdom of Caubul_, 2nd ed. (1842) i. 22 ff. For a full account of the Abbāsi Dāūdputras of Bahāwalpur see the _State Gazetteer_ by Malik Muhammad Din (1908), i. 47 ff..] Footnote 8.2.58: