9. The Marriage Ceremony and Marriage Customs 
: of the Gehara Kanjars. 
By W. KrrKpatrRIck. 
The *‘ bride price’ among these people is ‘‘ nine twentys,”’ ! 
or one hundred and eighty rupees for a virgin, and in the 
case of a widow ‘‘six twentys,’’ or one hundred and twenty 
rupees. The father of the bridegroom is liable for this pay- 
ment to the bride’s family, or if the bridegroom is adult he has 
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to pay the ‘bride price’’ himse e ‘‘divorce price,’’ 
which th Scibernor: is also liable for, is similarly ‘‘ nine 
twentys © os 
or ae pies keep an account of all the expenses 
incurred from the day of betrothal and the sum total of these 
have also to be paid for by the new husband to the divorcée. 
e pour parlers connected with the betrothal are intricate. 
When it is more or less decided who is an eligible bride, and the 
bride’s party are agreeable to receive the advances of the 
bridegroom’s party, the latter open negotiations by sending 
& messenger to the bride’s party or sept or family with Re. 1-4. 
(twenty annas), and a formal request for an interview or meet- 
3 he message is received and considered by the bride’s 
party with much ceremony and the merits and demerits of 
the bridegroom and his ‘side’ or party or sept are freely dis- 
cussed, If the request or ‘‘ offer ’’ is accepted, as it usually is, 
the preceding negotiations being part of the formality, a meet- 
or Rs. 10 being distributed i in daru eins spirit) and bdtasds 
and sweetmeats. The Panchayat offer the first glass or cup of 
a aving quaffed the wine and possessed himself of 
the rupee the bride’s guardian stands up and announces, “ I 
have given away the girl.’’ The whole party, or it may be 
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now form a procession and walk round in a circle seven times. 
This is on the first of the seven days during which the 1 marriage 
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