Essay the First: On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes, in Three Parts ... |
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Essay the First: On the Kocch, Bodo and Dhimal Tribes, in Three Parts Brian Houghton Hodgson No preview available - 2016 |
Essay the First: On the Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes, in Three Parts Brian Houghton Hodgson No preview available - 2018 |
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aborigines agricultural áng ángká Arian Assam B. H. HODGSON Báda bári Báthó Béhá Bhára Bichúr Bodo and Dhimál Bodo or Dhimál bottom-for Caret chá Cháli chan Chimta clothes craft cultivation Dán Dáng deities Déóshi Dhába Dhár dibár dinu ditto ditto dong Dóp dosa Elka éng English exorcist fœm forest galai Gárós géyá Ghám gods Gúbún Gyán hadé hika Hindu Híwá hobar hotno Húkam Imbé jááno jéngli jinis jong Jongni kám katang Khajana kháng khí khlámno ko chan Kocch Kóls konu korinu kyel láno Madai Mahani male mánthúka matno Mogon Mouria Múli Nang chúr nhádong nouns numbers Nyel Ojhá páka páli Páni participle Pát peasant phoi phrá píá pili plains pronouns race Rajah rhúli rice rites river Rong sér Shó Tamulian téng tháng tongues top-for Ubal Urdú verb vocabulary Wával words دو دو دو وو ور وو دو وو وو
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Page 178 - I cannot learn the cause of the great difference. A youth who has no means of discharging this sum, must go to the house of his father-in-law elect and there literally earn his wife by the sweat of his brow, labouring, more judaico, upon mere diet for a term of years, varying from two as an average, to five and even seven as the extreme period. This custom is named Gaboi by the Bodo — Gharjya by the Dhimals.
Page 170 - Ojha best knows how !) a hog ; and it is forthwith vowed by the sick man and promised by the exorcist, but only paid •when the former has recovered. On recovery the animal is sacrificed, and its blood offered to the offended deity. I witnessed this ceremony myself among the Dhimals, on which occasion the thirteen deities invoked were...
Page 185 - A house is from 12 to 16 cubits long by 8 to 12 wide. A smaller house of the same sort is erected opposite for the cattle ; and if the family be large, two other domiciles like the first are built on the other sides, so as to enclose an open quadrangle or yard. The houses are made of jungle grass, secured within and...
Page 150 - Tamulian form, on the contrary, there is less height, less symmetry, more dumpiness and flesh : in the Tamulian face, a somewhat lozenge contour caused by the large cheek bones ; less perpendicularity in the features to the front, occasioned not so much by defect of forehead or chin, as by excess of jaws and mouth ; a larger proportion of face to head, and less roundness in the latter ; a broader flatter face with features less symmetrical but perhaps more expressive, at least of individuality ;...
Page 170 - Malevolence appears to be attributed to very few of the gods, though of course all will resent neglect ; but, in general, their natures are deemed benevolent ; and hence the absence of all savage or cruel rites. All diseases, however, are ascribed to supernatural agency. The sick man is supposed to be possessed by one of the deities, who racks him with pains as a punishment for impiety or neglect of the god in question. Hence, not the mediciner but the exorcist is summoned to the sick man's aid.
Page 189 - ... the whole stands for three or four days, and the liquor is ready. The Agaichito plant is grown at home. Its root, which serves for balm, is called Emon. I have never seen it. Besides this beer — of which both people use much — they likewise freely use tobacco ; but never opium nor hemp in any of the numerous preparations of both ; nor distilled waters of any kind ; and, upon the whole, I see no reason to brand them with the name of drunkards, though they certainly love a merry cup in honour...
Page 190 - He rises at day-spring, and having performed the offices of nature and washed himself, he proceeds at once to work in his field till noon. He then goes home to take the chief meal of the day, and which consists of rice, pulse, fish or flesh (on alternate days), greens and chillies, with salt — never ghiu — seldom oil. He rests an hour or more at noon, and then resumes his agricultural toils, which are not suspended till nightfall. So soon as he has got home he takes a second meal with his family,...
Page 159 - Daughters have no inheritance nor dower : but if their parents be rich and give them marriage presents, such are held to be their own, and will be retained by them in the event of divorce. Neither Bodo nor Dhimal can marry beyond the limits of his own people, and if he do, he is severely fined. Within those limits only two or three of the closest natural ties are deemed a bar to marriage.
Page 190 - Dhimal, as will be anticipated from the foregone details, is full of amiable qualities — and almost entirely free from such as are unamiable. They are intelligent, docile, free from all hard or obstructive prejudices, honest and truthful in deed and word, steady and industrious in their own way of life ; but apt to be mutable and idle when first placed in novel situations, and to resist injunctions, injudiciously urged, with dogged obstinacy. They are void of all violence towards their own people...
Page 170 - Libations of fermented liquor always accompany sacrifice — because, to confess the whole truth, sacrifice and feast are commutable words, and feasts need to be crowned with copious potations.