528 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1911. 
month after the wedding. This is called the dwirdgaman, and 
sometimes costs one-fourth of the amount spent on the actual 
we 
Only among the twice-born castes does a bride receive dower, 
stri-dhan. This includes the presents made to her by her father 
and husband, and the gifts made to her by her mother-in-law 
and others at the end of the wedding ceremony. 
Dower.—The Bashdhr State has recently bestowed two 
villages on the two Deis of Bashd4hr who were married to H. 
the Raja of Kashipar. The income of these two villages will 
go to the two Dejs at KAshipir, and to their offspring after their 
death. Occasionally the chief or a rani gives dower to a Brahman 
girl. She is then called a kankori, and is regarded as the donor’s 
own daughter. Even poor men give a daughter some dower 
according to their means. Locally this is called sambhdl, a term 
which includes my present made to a married daughter on 
certain occasions. 
In brief, formal marriage is confined to families resident in a bdzdr 
or township or connected with the State darbdr. 
Giaiee 
only is indispensable, ’ 
Another form o customary marriage with a maid, who 1 
wooed and won from a fair or a place of pilgrimage, is prevalent 
among the Khash and Karan. It is solemnised by worship 
the door and hearth, and by the andarera or andrea,’ and the 
Pair are regarded as bride and bridegroom. 
Sareea nia net en tae poe 
dwar-mdtri are seven N mphs, who reside in the doors; thelr 
Jaye ess follows: Kalyani, Dhanadd, Nanda. Punnya, Punyamukbi, 
2 2 F Mdm 16 whole group is called Dwar-matri. ree 
bri = m Sanskrit shikhochchdra, the recitation of the bride's this 
Tite ¢ m8 got, shakha (whence the name), and parvara. a for 
espo ° gotrachdr of the plains. ee a she 
‘lag caste : 
Sheree ass, that is Kanets, cal 8 observe the Shékhoche We “a 
