The fourth day after birth a name is given to the infant, and on the sixth an entertainment to friends.

The following day the rite of circumcision ("kattam") is performed, though not always, this being sometimes postponed for a year or more.

On this occasion (as at a death) large distributions of food are made to the poor.
The country between Gajjar and Jebri, which was reached next day, is bare and sterile, notwithstanding that, at the latter place, water is seldom scarce, even in the dryest seasons.

The plain, which consists of loose, drifting sand, with intervals of hard, stony ground, is called Kandari.

The cold here in the months of January and February is intense.