Note 83 — Chapter III · DISEASE DEITIES.
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A typical bhuvā has a braid of hair on his head, puts one or more iron or copper anklets round his leg or elbow, and makes a mark with red lead on his forehead. A bhuvā attending upon the goddess Meldi is generally83 a Vāghri by caste and always wears dirty clothes. A Bharvād bhuvā has generally a silver anklet round his waist. A bhuvā has to observe a fast on all the nine days of the Nav-rātras. If a bhuvā happens to come across another bhuvā in convulsive fits or in a trance, he must need go into fits as well.