Note 10 — D.

5. The occupation is an ancient one. In the vocabulary of Amara Sinha there are two words for workers with a needle—tunnavâya, or “those who darn” (the modern Rafugar), and the other the sauchika (represented by the modern Sûji), a general tailor. The profession of the latter was of sufficient importance to necessitate the establishment of a special tribe and a mixed class. The lawful issue of Vaisyas by a Sûdra woman were, according to the ancient law book of Usanas, destined to live by it and were called Sauchi or “needle-men.”10 The occupation is a poor one and held rather in contempt. The village proverb runs,—Darji ka pût jab tak jîta tab tak sîta—“the tailor’s brat will do nothing but sew all his life long.” Another is,—Darzi ki sûi khabhi tâsh men, kabhi tât men—“the tailor’s needle now in embroidery, now in canvass.”