And though the practice of hand pottery is now abandoned, the divisions remain.

The Shikari or sportsmen Pardhis (hunters) are those who use firearms, though far from being sportsmen in our sense of the term; the Phanse Pardhis hunt with traps and snares; the Chitewale use a tame leopard to run down deer, and the Gayake stalk their prey behind a bullock.

Among the subcastes of Dhimars (fishermen and watermen) are the Singaria, who cultivate the _singara_ or water-nut in tanks, the Tankiwalas or sharpeners of grindstones, the Jhingars or prawn-catchers, the Bansias and Saraias or anglers (from _bansi_ or _sarai_, a bamboo fishing-rod), the Kasdhonias who wash the sands of the sacred rivers to find the coins thrown or dropped into them by pious pilgrims, and the Sonjharas who wash the sands of auriferous streams for their particles of gold.

[89] The Gariwan Dangris have adopted the comparatively novel occupation of driving carts (_gari_) for a livelihood, and the Panibhar are water-carriers, while the ordinary occupation of the Dangris is to grow melons in river-beds.

It is unnecessary to multiply instances; here, as in the case of territorial subcastes, the practice of subdivision appears to have been extended from motives of convenience, and the slight difference of occupation is adopted as a distinguishing badge.
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