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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I January 1844

1844

The ceremonies attending the marriage of a widow are as is usual among the natives of the east few ; the gift of a new cloth and the selection of a fortunate hour on which to conduct the bride home coinprise the whole. [...] The next morning the young wife rises early and carrying the hand-mill near the feet of her husband's parents there grinds the corn necessary for the meals of the Shortly after midnight the women in the east rise and begin to grind corn for the family sheering themselves in their lonely task by singing their labour songs. [...] The creatures that they kill they eat for with the exception of the cow and bullock all animals the elephant the tiger and the leopard the jungle dog and jungle cat the wild-boar the wolf the iguana and the rat and mouse are used as food by the Bhourie. [...] The women collect wood in the jungles to make the charcoal necessary in their husbands' trade : the movement of the forge-bellows is likewise the duty of the women many of %horn assist. [...] All the dead are buried ; when they consign one of their people to the earth they place rice and oil at the head of the grave and stand near to watch what 'creature comes to eat it drawing the happiest omen of the state of the departed from the crow visiting the spot.
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Pages
88
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
On the Migratory Tribes of Natures in Central India. By Edward Balfour Esq. Assistant Surgeon Communicated by the Author to Jameson’s Edinburgh Journal
1-18 The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
Vocabulary of Goand and Cole Words. From Dr. Votsey’s Mss. Ellichpoor 16th December 1821
19-23 The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
On the History of Arakan—By Capt. A. P. Phayre Senior Assistant Commissioner Arakan
23-52 The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
Bhascaræ Acharya Siddhanta Shirómani Sic Dicti Operis Pars Tertia Gunitadhiam Sive Astronomiam Continens Latine Verlit Naasque Adjecit E. Roer
53-i The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
Summary Descriptiona of Two New Species of Flying Squirrel. By B. H. Hodgson Esq. B. C. S. with a Colored Plate
67-68 The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
i-xii The Secretary and Sub-Secretary view

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