Some of them wear the sacred thread and others do not.

Some of their family names are taken from those of animals and plants, and they bury persons who die unmarried, placing their feet towards the north like the forest tribes.
_Arka_ .-- A sept of Gonds in Chanda who worship the saras crane.
_Armachi_ .-- (The _dhaura_ tree.) A totemistic sept of Gonds.
_Arora_, _Rora_ .-- An important trading and mercantile caste of the Punjab, of which a few persons were returned from the Nimar District in 1901.

Sir D.Ibbetson was of opinion that the Aroras were the Khatris of Aror, the ancient capital of Scinde, represented by the modern Rori.

He described the Arora as follows: [413] "Like the Khatri and unlike the Bania he is no mere trader; but his social position is far inferior to theirs, partly no doubt because he is looked down upon simply as being a Hindu in the portions of the Province which are his special habitat.

He is commonly known as a Kirar, a word almost synonymous with coward, and even more contemptuous than is the name Bania in the east of the province.