Ethnographic Notes in Southern IndiaSuperintendent, Government Press, 1906 - 580페이지 |
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ashes Badagas bamboo barber bathe Bellary district betel body Brahman bride and bridegroom bridegroom brother buffalo buried called carried caste child cloth cocoanut Coimbatore corpse cremation custom dead death deceased district ears evil father feast feet female festival fire fire-walking flowers forehead funeral Ganjam girl goddess grave hair hand head Hindu Holeya husband Irulas jaggery Jenmi Kallan Khonds Kota Kurumbas leaf leaves Lingayat Madigas Madras Census Report Malabar male mantrams Manual marriage marriage booth marriage ceremony married milk mother Muhammadan Mysore native Nayars neck Nilgiris North Arcot offered Paraiyan performed person piece placed plantain priest pūja pūjāri rice rites round rupees sacrifice slaves snake South Canara spirit stick stone tāli Tamil Telugu temple thou thread throw tied Tirupati Travancore tree tribe turmeric twigs vessel village Vizagapatam wedding wife woman women worship writes Yerukalas
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418 페이지 - Small portions of rice enveloped in cloths, marked as above, are placed in a nest of white ants; the consumption of the rice in any of the bags, establishes sorcery against the woman whose name it bears.
368 페이지 - Nairi and their wives use for a braverie to make great holes in their eares, and so bigge and wide, that it is incredible, holding this opinion, that the greater the holes bee, the more noble they esteeme themselves. I had leave of one of them to measure the circumference of one of them with a threed, and within that circumference I put my arme up to the shoulder, clothed as it was, so that in effect they are monstrous great.
47 페이지 - The sons, when mere children, are married to mature females, and the father-inlaw of the bride assumes the performance of the procreative function, thus assuring for himself and his son a descendant to take them out of Put. When the putative father comes of age, and in their turn his wife's male offspring are married, he performs for them the same office which his father did for him.
383 페이지 - ... default of her the mother of the nearest relative, must submit to the cruel ordeal. In an editorial foot-note it is stated that this custom is no longer observed. Instead of the two fingers being amputated, they are now merely bound together, and thus rendered unfit for use. In the Census report, 1891, it is recorded that this type of deformity is found among the Morasas, chiefly in Cuddapah, North Arcot, and Salem. " There is a sub-section of them, called Veralu icche kapulu, or kapulu who give...
116 페이지 - Nayres never look upon any of the children born of their mistresses as belonging to them, however strong a resemblance may subsist, and all inheritances among the Nayres go to their brothers, or the sons of their sisters, born of the same mothers, all relationship being counted only by female consanguinity and descent. This strange law prohibiting marriage was established that they might have neither wives nor children on whom to fix their love and attachment : and that, being free from all family...
503 페이지 - Pennoo, and represented by three stones, near which the brass effigy in the shape of the peacock is buried, they kill a pig in sacrifice, and, having allowed the blood to flow into a pit prepared for the purpose, the victim who, if it has been found possible...
384 페이지 - Manual of the Salem district' (1883) that " the practice now observed in this district is that, when a grandchild is born in a family, the eldest son of the grandfather, with his wife, appears at the temple for the ceremony of boring the child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father of the * Bait.
358 페이지 - The origins of these fashions are mostly lost in obscurity, all attempts to solve them being little more than guesses. Some of them have become associated with religious or superstitious observances, and so have been spread and perpetuated ; some have been vaguely thought to be hygienic in motive ; most have some relation to conventional standards of improved personal appearance...
28 페이지 - ... seated behind her, grasping her legs, moves them up and down in time with the music which is played. In the evening she is taken, astride a pony, to the temple, where a new cloth for the idol, the tali, and other articles required for doing puja (worship) have been got ready.
505 페이지 - The People of India," 1908, 62. bowels, till the living skeleton, dying from loss of blood, is relieved from torture, when its remains are burnt, and the ashes mixed with the new grain to preserve it from insects.