Note 55 — CHAPTER 23
Reading edition
Literally ‘lamp-holders’; such is the term applied to these handmaids; who invariably form a part of the daeja or ‘dower.’ [The custom of sending handmaids with the bride, the girls often becoming concubines of the bridegroom, is common (Russell, Tribes and Castes Central Provinces, i. 63, ii. 77). In Gujarāt they are known as Goli or Vadhāran, and are sometimes married to the Khawās, or male slaves of the harem (BG, ix. Part i. 147, 235).]