of glory dries, otherwise if he puts his pugri on it while it is still wet it will stink Since most Sikhs bathe once a week and some not that often, in the merciless Indian heat they become odoriferous, and their insatiable appetite for great quantities of onions and garlic at each meal seldom lessens their fragrance. After a Sikh has washed his body he then washes his katcha-underpants that come to his knees and a long tailed shirt that drops a few inches below.

While he may bathe whenever he wishes or is forced to under threats of social ostracism, a Pathan cannot. To get water in his country, which borders along the northwestern frontier of India, now Pakistan, he must climb hills and walk two or three miles.

Strong and powerfully built from centuries of hard work a Pathan is fair, often handsome by our western standards and invariably decorated with dust and sweat, his clothing stiff from both. No Pathan, whether he is a father or a bachelor, is content without his boy. Few venture from their homes but those who do, go to India's large cities and become Kabulees, money lenders. There is a saying that a man who borrowed from a Pathan is ruined because he will have to pay several times more than the capital in interest. Whether the family at home profits from father's financial acumen is problematical; that the boy does may be seen in his clothes, jewelry and spending money.

Sikhs and Pathans avoid each other as we of the western world shun skunks. Pathans are born Pathans but a Sikh is made. A male child after the age of 8 is subjected to a religous ritual and from that day onward he must have five things on his person, namely (1) his kesh, (2) the katcha, (3) a kirpan, the emblem of a sword embossed in steel on a wooden comb which he carries in his hair, (4) the kanga-comb, of two inches in length it is used to put the hair in place then is tucked under the turban, (5) kara, a steel bracelet which may be worn on either wrist.

Sikh history shows they were ferocious warriors and expert horsemen and lived mostly in caves and hills with no room for women and children, attractive boys an exception. Gurmuhki, their language, as most Indian languages, is derived from the Sanscrit. The word seik sikh and seishal signifies discipline. Forbidden the use of tobacco Sikhs get a terrific charge from bang, an intoxicating drug; and after sunset they hit the bottle; to do so before then is against their religious principles, Also taboo is the eating of beef. Their favorite delicacy is the strong flavored flesh of the jungle hog after it has been exposed a day in the sun. Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, was born in the village of Tilwundy, in the district of Chatti, province of Lahore, 1469 A. D. With Mardana his beloved and devoted friend he retired from the world and like a wandering minstrel spent his time meditating, composing and singing hymns to the accompaniment of the rabash, a musical instrument of Arab origin which Mardana played for him. Their twelve year companionship ended with Mardana's death.

This thought provoking passage from Nanak's longest poem, the Japji, is repeated daily by every Sikh: "Kings and Emperors who possess oceans and mountains of property are not equal to the worm which forgetteth not God in his heart." Monhan Singh, the lanky Sikh I met not only looked very clean but was ordorless. To my amazement he asked me if I came from our western states. I told him I did and asked him how he had arrived at his deduction. He said it was my accent, that he had learned our regional accents through our movies-the westerns his favorites and the bloodier the better. At the time we were standing on Darmahatta Street in front of a lumber comany where he worked as a carpenter.

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