When a corpse has been buried or burnt the mourners each take a twig of mango and beat about in the grass to start a grasshopper.

Having captured one they wrap it in a piece of new cloth, and coming home place it beside the family god.

This they call bringing back the life of the soul, and consider that the ceremony procures salvation for the dead.

The Khadals are usually considered as impure, but those of Sonpur have attained a somewhat higher status.
_Khadia_ .-- (A kind of snake.) A section of Ahir and Raghuvansi.

A sept of Nahal.
_Khadra_, [458] _Khadura_ or _Kharura_ .-- A small Uriya caste whose occupation is to make brass ornaments.