KHYRODA is a tuppa or subdivision of one of the greater khalisa or fiscal districts of Mewar, and consists of fourteen townships, besides their hamlets. Its land is of three classes, viz. peewul, or watered from wells ; gorma, also irrigated land, extending three or four khet or fields around the village ; and mar or mal, depending on the heavens alone for moisture. There are two harvests, viz. the oonaloo (from Oon, heat), or summer harvest ; and the sealoo (from See, cold), the winter or autumnal. The sealoo crop consists of mukki or Indian corn, sorghum or jowar, and bajra, with the different pulses. The share of the Crown, as in all the ancient Hindu govern ments, was taken in kind, and divided as follows : —Of the first, or oonaloo crop, which consists of wheat, barley, and gram, the produce is formed into kulla (piles or heaps) of 100 maunds each ; these are subdivided into four parts, of 25 maunds each. The first operation is to provide from one of these the seerana, or one seer on each mound, to each individual of the village establishment, viz. the Patel or headman ; the
patwari, registrar or accountant ; the shauah or watchman ; the bullai or messenger and general herdsman ; the kat'hi (alias sootar) or carpenter ; the lobar or blacksmith ; the khomar or potter ; the dhobi or washerman ; the chamar, who is shoemaker, carrier, and scavenger ; the use or barber-surgeon. This rough sketch of the agri cultural economy of Khyroda, may be taken as a fair specimen of the old system throughout Mewar. —Toll's Rajasthan, ii. pp. 595, 598.
K1. Cum Several species of Cirsium, Cnicus, Centaurea, and Carduns.—Sinith.
K1, also written Ko and Kei or Key, a group of three large and many smaller islands, about 60 miles west of the Aru Islands, and the same distance S.W. from New Guinea, thinly peopled. The Ki appear like so many isolated mountains ; one of them is famous for its potteries. At arc built the prahu celebrated among the mariners of Banda and Ceram for their sailing qualities and strength.—St. John's Archipelago, ii. p. 00; Horsburgh. '