8. Occupation.
The caste are cultivators and farmservants, and are, as a rule, very poor, living from hand to mouth. They practise shifting cultivation and are too lazy to grow the more valuable crops. They eat grain twice a day during the four months from October to January only, and at other times eke out their scanty provision with edible roots and leaves, and hunt and fish in the forest like the Muria and Māria Gonds.
[1] This article is entirely based on an account of the caste furnished by Rai Bahādur Panda Baijnāth, Superintendent, Bastar State.
[2] Bassia latifolia.
[3] Boswellia serrata.