Note 1 — Volume II.
Reading edition
Canji (gruel).—An exogamous sept of Padma Sālē. Canji is the word “in use all over India for the water, in which rice has been boiled. It also forms the usual starch of Indian washermen.”1 As a sept of the Sālē weavers, it probably has reference to the gruel, or size, which is applied to the warp.