Works, Volume 49Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 10
... women there is also no marriage of women in the Western sense . The Tamburāttis , or ladies of the " royal " houses , take their mates from the Nambūtiri Brahmans , or sometimes from Kshatriya Tamburāns . They remain in their kovilagams ...
... women there is also no marriage of women in the Western sense . The Tamburāttis , or ladies of the " royal " houses , take their mates from the Nambūtiri Brahmans , or sometimes from Kshatriya Tamburāns . They remain in their kovilagams ...
Page 19
... women go before him with their brooms and basins in their hands , plastering the path where he is to tread . When a new King comes to the throne there are great rejoicings among these thousand women . When the year of his mourning and ...
... women go before him with their brooms and basins in their hands , plastering the path where he is to tread . When a new King comes to the throne there are great rejoicings among these thousand women . When the year of his mourning and ...
Page 50
... women do the same to other women . They say that they do this that their blood may not be tainted . If one of these low caste men , by accident or of his own will , touches one of these women her kinsmen slay him forth- with , as well ...
... women do the same to other women . They say that they do this that their blood may not be tainted . If one of these low caste men , by accident or of his own will , touches one of these women her kinsmen slay him forth- with , as well ...
Contents
Here BEGINNETH THE LAND OF MALABAR | 1 |
KINGDOM of CananoR | 79 |
90 THE KINGDOM OF COCHIN | 92 |
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