Both men and women of the Bant community are among the comeliest of Asiatic races, the men having high foreheads and well-turned aquiline noses.
The Shivalli Brahmans are said to be referred to by the Bants as Mathumaglu or Mathmalu (bride) in allusion to the fact of their wives being taken from the Bant caste.
It still survives in the marriage ceremonies of various castes, and the name of the Bant ceremony shows that it must once have been universal among them.
From a detailed account of the Bant death ceremonies, I gather that the news of a death is conveyed to the caste people by a Holeya.
Every village, or group of villages, possesses a guttu, and the Bant who occupies, or holds in possession the house or site set apart as the guttu is the Guttinayya.
The origin of the Ballals is explained by a proverb, which says that when a Bant becomes powerful, he becomes a Ballal.
The term Nadava instead of Bant in the northern portions of South Canara points, among other indications, to a territorial organisation by nads similar to that described by Mr. Logan as prevailing in Malabar.
Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
There is a proverb that, when a Bant becomes powerful, he becomes a Ballal.
The foregoing account shows that the Bantmarriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
Ballal is a title assumed by Bant families of position.
The two last are permitted only if the buffaloes belong to a Bant or Brahman, not if they are the property of a Billava.
In their marriage ceremonial, the Odaris follow the Bant type.
The spirit of Kujumba Kanje, a Bant of renown, belongs to this class of Bhutas.
I have no information regarding the caste, but they seem to be closely allied to the Bant caste, of which Nadava is one of the sub-divisions.
At length he stops, and every one is addressed according to his rank; if the Pombada offends a rich Bant by omitting any of his numerous titles, he is made to suffer for it.
I've got all the instincts of a real society lady and sometimes it irks me awful not to be able to let myself loose and bant like--" "Pant?
Yes, dearie, what I long for day and night is a chance to take my place in the social stratums I was born for and bant off the fat like other social ladies is doin' right along.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
