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when a lad with mustaches just appearing, having been married to a 

 woman who, five years previously, had attained maturity ; a marriage 

 that would have been opposed to the customs, and repugnant to the 

 feelings alike of Hindoo and Mahomedan. To this wife he yet 

 remains attached, though it is not unusual to have two, three, or four 

 wives in one household, among this people. In marrying, at the hour 

 pronounced to be fortunate by a Brahmin, the bride and bridegroom, 

 smeared with turmeric, are seated on the ground, and a circle drawn 

 with rice around them. For five days the musicians attend before 

 their door, and the whole concludes by the neighbours gathering round 

 and sprinkling a few grains from the rice circle over the 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 tent ; 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 coun- 

 tenance 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, where- 

 ever the Madras troops marched under Sir Arthur Wellesley, they 

 followed, and are now found located in most British cantonments. 

 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. 



