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parents ; nor do they ever receive UpacUsa or Chakrdntikctm. They CHAPTER 
pray to Dharma Raja, and offer sacrifices to Marima , Caragadumma , 
and Gungoma. The Pujdri, or priest, who officiates in the temple of Lily 12, 
this last destructive spirit, is a WhaUia ; and her’s are the only 
temples into which any of this tribe are ever admitted. They eat 
the sacrifices offered even to this deity, peculiar to their cast. 
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Their Guru never joins in any of these sacrifices; none of them can 
read or write. They are allowed to drink spirituous liquors, and to 
eat beef, pork, mutton, fowls, and fish; nor have they any objec- 
tion to eat an animal that has died a natural death. Their marriage 
ceremony consists in a feast, at which the bridegroom ties the 
bridal ornaments round the neck of his mistress. Except for 
adultery, a man cannot divorce his wife ; and if she has children, he 
cannot during her life take another; but if a man, in a reasonable 
time after marriage, have no children by his first wife, he may take 
a second. Widows are not permitted to marry again ; but it is not 
expected that they should burn themselves, nor preserve celibacy 
with great exactitude. Many of this cast take the vow of Daseri. 
The Togotas, or Togotarufaxe a class of weavers of Telinga origin, Customs of 
and in their families retain that language. They follow no other llie To S utm ' 
trade than weaving, and have hereditary chiefs called Jjyamdna , 
who possess the usual authority. Many of them can read and write 
accompts ; but none attempt any higher kind of learning. Idle, 
stupid fellows, that cannot get a living by their industry, take the 
vow of Daseri , and go about praying with a bell and conch. They 
have no tradition concerning the time when they came into this 
country. They all eat together, but intermarry only with such 
families, as by long acquaintance know the purity of each other’s 
descent. They cannot lawfully drink spirituous liquors, but can eat 
fish, fowls, and mutton. It must be observed, that, throughout the 
southern parts of India, fowls are a common article of diet with the 
lower casts; whereas in Bengal, their use is confined entirely 
to Mussulmans. In Bengal again, ducks and geese are com- 
