Henceforth the clan was self-contained, having its married couples, both members of it, whose children would also be born in and belong to it.

Since the clan was originally a body of persons who wandered about and hunted together, its character would be maintained by living together, and there is reason to suppose that the Indian exogamous clan with male descent took its special character because its members usually lived in one or more villages.

This fact would account for the large number and multiplication of clans in India as compared with other places.

As already seen one of the names of a clan is _khera_, which also means a village, and a large number of the clan names are derived from, or the same, as those of villages.

Among the Khonds all the members of one clan live in the same locality about some central village.