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English: Mendicants belonging to Waghya caste

Identifier: tribescastesofce04russ (find matches)
Title: The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane), 1873-1915
Subjects: Ethnology -- India Madhya Pradesh Caste -- India Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (India) -- Religion
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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When parentshave to dedicate a boy to Khandoba they go to his templeat Jejuri in Poona on any day in the month of Chaitra (March-April). They stay at a Guraos house and tell him the objectof their visit. The boys father brings ofierings and they goin procession to Khandobas temple. There the Gurao marksthe boys brow with turmeric, throws turmeric over his head,fastens round his neck a deer- or tiger-skin wallet hungfrom a black woollen string and throws turmeric over thegod, asking him to take the boy. The Murlis or girls dedi-cated to the god are married to him between one and twelveyears of age. The girl is taken to the temple by her parentsaccompanied by the Gurao priest and other Murlis. Atthe temple she is bathed and her body rubbed with turmeric, Vol. XX. pp. 189-190.
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Bcmrost, Colio., Derby. \NkQH(k MENDICANTS. II WAGHYA 60s with which the feet of the idol arc also anointed. She isdressed in a new robe and bodice, and green glass banglesare put on her wrists. A turban and sash arc presented tothe god, and the guru taking a necklace of nine cowries(shells) fastens it round the girls neck. She then standsbefore the god, a cloth being held between them as at aproper wedding, and the priest repeats the marriage verses.Powdered turmeric is thrown on the heads of the girl andof the idol, and from that day she is considered to be thewife of Khandoba and cannot marry any other man. Whena Murli comes of age she sits by herself for four days.Then she looks about for a patron, and when she succeedsin getting one she calls a meeting of her brethren, theWaghyas, and in their presence the patron says, I will fillthe Murlis lap. The Waghyas ask him what he will payand after some haggling a sum is agreed on, which thirtyyears ago varied between twenty-five and a h

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