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and sprinkling a few grains from the rice circle over tho 

 couple. The married women wear the tali round their necks, 

 which is broken on the husband's death by the relatives of the 

 deceased. This people live virtuously ; the abandonment of 

 their daughters is never made a trade of, and other classes 

 speak favourably of their chastity. 



They respect Brahmins ; and though they never, or at least 

 very rarely, attend places of worship, they seem to respect the 

 gods of the Hindoo mythology, and keep in their houses small 

 silver images of Hanuman, which they once every two or 

 three months worship with songs, and sacrifice, and music. 

 Their foreheads, too, are tattooed with the mark of Vishnu ; 

 but they offer up no daily prayers. 



THE TELING KORAWA, OR KORAWA OF TELINGANA. 



This branch of the Korawa people are generally known as 

 Kusbi, Korawa, Aghare Pal Wale, prostitute Korawas, the 

 sitters at the doors of their tents ; but these names the people 

 themselves consider opprobrious. The form of their features 

 is altogether different from that of the Bajantri Korawa, the 

 shape and expression of the countenance being similar to the 

 inhabitants of the Coromandel coast — the country, if we judge 

 by their name, Teling, whence they originally migrated : but 

 wandering from place to place for a livelihood, wherever the 

 Madras troops marched under Sir Arthur Wellesley, they fol- 

 lowed, and are now found located in most British canton- 

 ments. The Teling Korawa gain a livelihood by basket- 

 making and selling brooms, in making which their wives assist ; 

 but their chief means of subsistence is in the prostitution of 

 their female relatives, whom, for that purpose, they devote to 

 the gods from their birth. 



When the lives of children in India are despaired of, the 

 fond mother, whether Mahomedan or Hindu, wills that it 

 should live, though sickness and destitution be its lot through 

 life ; and when agonized by tho prospect of its death, she vows 

 to devote her offspring to the service of the deity, should its 



