 | Government Museum (Madras, India) - Ethnology - 1900 - 690 pages
...whether the father of the * Eait India Gazetteer. f ' Hinda Manners, OastooM, and Ceraajouiei,' Ei, 1837. first grandchild born be the eldest son or not, as...child is adopted, the same course is pursued." The origin of the custom is narrated by Wilks,* and is briefly this. Mahadco or Siva, who was in great... | |
 | Government Museum (Chennai, India) - Ethnology - 1900 - 704 pages
...the father of the * Bait. India Gazetteer. t ' Hiodn Manners), Customs, and Ceraauniei,' Ri., 1S97. first grandchild born be the eldest son or not, as...undergo the operation. When a child is adopted, the same coarse is pursued." The origin of the custom is narrated by Wilks,* and is briefly this. Mahadeo or... | |
 | Government Museum (Madras, India) - Ethnology - 1901 - 534 pages
...father of the * Ea»t India Gazetteer. t ' Hindu Manners, Gusto us, and Cars nonies,' Ei., 1897. OD first grandchild born be the eldest son or not, as...undergo the operation. When a child is adopted, the same coarse is pursued." The origin of the custom is narrated by Wilks,* and is briefly this. Mahadeo or... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - Ethnology - 1906 - 680 pages
...boring the child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father...child is adopted, the same course is pursued." The origin of the custom is narrated by Wilks,* and is briefly this. Mahadeo or Siva, who was in great... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - Ethnology - 1906 - 694 pages
...boring tho child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father...mutilation. After this, when children are born to other sous, their wives in succession undergo the operation. When a child is adopted, the same course is... | |
 | Madras (India : State) - Madras (India) - 1918 - 368 pages
...hand chopped off. It does not signify whether the father of the first grandchild born be the oldest son or not, as in any case it is the wife of the eldest son who has to undergo the mutilation." CHAP. III. SORVEY OF CASTES. Vakkiligas. little fingers of her right hand chopped off by the village... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1919 - 596 pages
...boring the child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father...When a child is adopted, the same course is pursued." s Another report of this remarkable practice runs as follows : " A peculiar custom prevails among one... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1919 - 600 pages
...boring the child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father...When a child is adopted, the same course is pursued." 2 Another report of this remarkable practice runs as follows : " A peculiar custom prevails among one... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - Ethnology - 2004 - 124 pages
...the father of the * Eait India Gazetteer. t ' Hindu Manners, Customs, and Cara.noniei,' Ed., 1897. OP first grandchild born be the eldest son or not, as...child is adopted, the same course is pursued." The origin of the custom is narrated by Wilks,* and is briefly this. Mahadeo or Siva, who was in great... | |
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... of the grandfather, with his wife, appears at the temple for the ceremony of boring the child's ear, and there the woman has the last two joints of the third and fourth fingers chopped off. It does not signify whether the father of the first grandchild... 