day a ceremonial bath is taken, and a feast, with copious supplies of liquor, is held. In parts of the Central Provinces the dead are buried, and two or three flat stones are set up over the grave.*[1]
Bhuri. — A sub-division of Gond.
Bījam (seed). — An exogamous sept of Bōya.
Bilpathri (bael:Ægle Marmelos). — An exogamous sept of Bōya.
Bindhani (workman). — A title of Oriya Badhōyis, and sometimes used as the name of the caste.
Bingi.— The Bingivāndlu are described, in the Kurnool Manual, as a class of mendicants, who play dramas. Some of them have shrotiyam villages, as Lingineni Doddi in Pattikonda. "Shrotiyam " has been defined †[2] as "lands, or a village, held at a favourable rate, properly an assignment of land or revenue to a Brāhman learned in the Vēdas, but latterly applied generally to similar assignments to native servants of the government, civil or military, and both Hindus and Muhammadans, as a reward for past services."
Bhūtiannaya (ashes). — An exogamous sept of Bant.
Bidāru (wanderers). — A sub-division of Odde.
Bilimagga.— The Bilimagga weavers of South Canara, who speak a very corrupt form of Tamil, must not be confused with the Bilimaggas of Mysore, whose mother-tongue is Canarese. In some places the Bilimaggas of South Canara call themselves Padma Sālēs, but they have no connection with the Padma Sālē caste. There is a tradition that they emigrated from Pāndiya Maduradēsa in the Tamil country. The caste name Bilimagga (white loom) is derived from the fact that they weave only white cloths. In some places, for the
