Sir D.Ibbetson says of them: [415] "The name is derived from the Sanskrit _bahu_, many, and _rupa_, form, and denotes an actor, a mimic or one who assumes many forms or characters.

One of their favourite devices is to ask for money, and when it is refused to ask that it may be given if the Bahrupia succeeds in deceiving the person who refused it.

Some days later the Bahrupia will again visit the house in the disguise of a pedlar, a milkman or what not, sell his goods without being detected, throw off his disguise and claim the stipulated reward." In Gujarat "they are ventriloquists and actors with a special skill of dressing one side of their face like a man and the other side like a woman, and moving their head about so sharply that they seem to be two persons." [416] Mr.Kitts states that "the men are by profession story-tellers and mimics, imitating the voices of men and the notes of animals; their male children are also trained to dance.

In payment for their entertainment they are frequently content with cast-off clothes, which will of course be of use to them in assuming other characters." [417] Occasionally also they dress up in European clothes and can successfully assume the character of a Eurasian.
_Baid_ .-- (Physician.) A surname of Sanadhia and Maratha Brahmans in Saugor.

A section of Oswal Bania, and Darzi.
_Bairagi_ .-- A caste or religious order.